Senior C# Developer / WPF / Agile / TDD – to £75k

Senior C# Developer / WPF / Agile / TDD - to £75k - London

Knowledge Experience

Essential

Experience / knowledge of:

* The whole SDLC, from requirements to deployment
* Agile development environment, including test-driven development using NUnit and the continuous build process with NANT and CruiseControl.
* Appreciation of all aspects of IT. E.g. software development, support, purchasing, service level agreements, production environments, configuration management, capacity planning, business continuity, infrastructure, security etc

Desirable

Experience of:

* Automated end-to-end testing
* Working in a pair-programming environment
* Working in an e-commerce environment

Technical Skills

Essential

* Test driven development (Test First Approach)
* Able to demonstrate a good in-depth and hands-on appreciation and experience of working with current development technologies and frameworks, specifically .Net/C#/VB in Visual Studio 2008

Desirable

* Working knowledge of Java
* Good understanding of web services implementation and use
* Experience and skill in mobile application development

We are looking for results driven OO Agile developers with experience of XP, test driven development and SOA.

The company are a rapidly growing ecommerce business that values a clear customer focus and a development environment that requires an organised approach. We are relatively new and still have room for those who share our values to help our continuous improvement process and take design responsibility. Ours is an environment in which you will have the scope to define your own contribution as well as helping us to develop an effective and pragmatic way forward.

The Development Team looks after new development and enhancements of all of our systems and services, from booking tickets and database management through to fulfilment and refunds.

Purpose of the Role

* To develop great code, using the most appropriate tools and techniques.
* We are currently using C#, Visual Studio 2010 2008 with Resharper 6, .Net 3.5 and .Net 4.0, WCF, NHibernate, FitNesse. Other tools include Go, Rhino mocks, NUnit, NHibernate. Our technology stack is ASP.Net / MVC, WCF, NService Bus with SQL Server and Oracle DB

The Candidate

* Will be using similar tools techniques to the above
* Will be able to demonstrate a leading role in their current team.
* Will be able to make pragmatic decisions to meet timescales
* Will be constantly looking to increase velocity and reduce technical debt (and the causes of technical debt)
* Will be able to offer and work with the strong opinions and ideas of other staff and mentor others to contribute at a similar level of effectiveness
* Understands the Agile manifesto, rather than just able to quote it
* Will think of themselves as a Software Engineer writing good quality OO code

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