Principal Back End Developer

Salary: Salary up to £80,000

Location: Manchester

Principal Back End Developer

Salary up to £80,000

Location Manchester (office-first working policy; office-first to foster collaboration, alignment, and community)

Reports to Development Lead

Day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to the below:

• Technical Leadership and Direction (40%): Set the technical direction for the front-end discipline, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices. Drive the adoption of new technologies, tools, and methodologies to keep our back-end development at the cutting edge. Collaborate with other principal developers and architects to define and implement scalable, maintainable, and performant front-end architectures.
• Software Development (30%): Dive deep into the creation of our SaaS products, working alongside a dynamic, cross-functional team, getting involved in every stage from brainstorming sessions to deployment, ensuring that our solutions not only meet but exceed our high standards. Your role extends beyond the code, youll be envisioning, planning, and executing projects that resonate with our customers.
• People Development (20%): Conduct regular career coaching sessions and facilitate guild meetings to share knowledge and foster the growth of the front-end development team. Work with engineering managers to identify skill gaps and training needs, and develop strategies to address them. Serve as a mentor and role model, promoting a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Process and Tooling (10%): Lead the effort in refining our development processes and exploring new tools that enhance our efficiency and output. Your insights will be invaluable in keeping us at the forefront of technological advancements.

Essential Required skills and experience

• Mastery of C# (.NET 6+ preferred)
• Expert in SQL Server
• Extensive experience in test Driven Development (NUnit preferred)
• Advanced version control using Git, including branching strategies and conflict resolution
• Highly proficient in creating and maintaining RESTful & GraphQL APIs
• SOLID & OOP
• Problem solving skills
• Being able to investigate and diagnose production issues.

Desirable

• ORMs (Entity Framework preferred)
• A seasoned practitioner of DevOps (CI/CD) & Cloud Services (Azure preferred)
• Mastery of several Design Patterns
• Knowledge of various back-end architectural patterns
• Experience with Observability as a practice (logging, App Insights, metrics and auditing)
• Aware of and able to implement good security practices.

Key competencies and attributes

• A visionary engineer with a deep love for technology and a strong belief in producing high-quality, resilient services with an aspiration to achieve engineering excellence.
• A strategic thinker who can align technical direction with business objectives and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• A strong advocate for test-driven development.
• A polyglot thinker who values diverse technical solutions and approaches and can articulate their merits to the team and leadership.
• Proactive in seeking out and evaluating emerging technologies that can add value to the platform.
• A strong advocate for test-driven development and a mentor to others in this practice.
• Extensive experience in technical delivery and Agile methodologies.
• You love face-to-face collaboration, being part of a close-knit tech community and fostering a positive team dynamic.
• Ambitious & passionate with a desire to develop your skills alongside your peers and help others grow.
• Youre comfortable explaining solutions to both technical & non-technical stakeholders and can represent the team in cross-functional discussions.

BrightHR Benefits

• Enhanced holidays 25 days increasing to 27 after 2 years service and 28 after 5 years service (22 Days for Field Sales)
• Private health care cover after 5 years service
• New business referral scheme
• Access to Health Shield
• Access to the EAP service
• Refer a friend scheme
• Paid birthday leave
• Pension scheme contribution increasing to 5% after 5 years service and again to 7% after 7 years service
• Group life insurance
• Eye care contribution
• Free fruit (office-based staff)
• Travel Season Ticket loan scheme
• Milestone recognition
• Discounted products
• Manchester City centre parking (AO Arena) / First Bus Travel Club Membership / Microsoft Home User programme / Anglian Home Improvements
• Pace health Club (situated in the park Inn) discounted gym membership and spa treatments
• Park Inn 20% food and drink discount
• New Century 20% food and drink discount
• Revolution De Cuba 20% food and drink discount
• Cycle 2 Work scheme* after probationary period
• On site Gym
• Bright Exchange perks

Values & Behaviours

• Living the company values of We care, We take action, we innovate, we inform, and we do the right thing
• We lead by example and recognise those living our values
• We drive the narrative by inspiring and engaging our team
• We collaborate with rigor and embrace diversity of thought
• We deliver with a united voice
• We take ownership by staying close to team performance by Super Coaching and Walking the Walk
• We keep our approach simple and stick to the playbook to deliver on promise
• We think critically and commercially, assess the situation before jumping to the solution

We are BrightHR; the only software powered by HR, health & safety, and legal experts. Everything you need to simply manage your staff, all in one place, PLUS free tools to set your business apart. We are on a mission to transform people management for businesses. Weve been making life easier for employers since 2015 with our range of innovative software, are providing HR, H&S, and business support to over 95,000 businesses globally. We are a people business. The market moves quickly and so do we. We put the customer first, working hard and always looking ahead, purposefully innovating to ensure peace of mind. BrightHR is an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, committed to diversity and inclusion without regard to protected characteristics.