Software Developer

Location

This role is mostly remote.Around 1 day per month youll be travelling to our Support Centre for team meetings or project discussions.

Why The Works

We dont just sell products.
We inspire reading learning creativity and play.

The Works. It literally means everything. And whatever your story or background were all about unlocking imagination and making creativity accessible to everyone. Whether youre engaging with customers on the frontline or supporting our colleagues behind the scenes your impact can be profound and farreaching.

This is more than toys and books and art supplies. This is about inspiring people to read learn create and play. So with the right passion it all starts with you.

Become a Software Developer

This is a veryexciting time for our Technology Team. Were heading into a big system transformation process which will see this person working on a number of projects within that and playing a key role in all of the development.

Reporting into the Development Team Lead you will join a collaborative and supportive team of developers where you will get a chance to be involved in the full software development lifecycle with some fantastic projects. You will be comfortable working within a team using an Agile methodology and engaging with your colleagues to better understand and execute projects and BAU tasks. You will have an interest in problem solving with the ability to diagnose and debug issues giving concise and clear updates on progress.

You are a strong communicator and collaborator who can work within our development team to deliver high quality software into production. You will be comfortable using an IDE to write C# JavaScript CSS & HTML code. With an interest in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and colleagues.

You will have a cando team driven attitude with a real drive to produce high quality software that we can be proud of as a team. You will have a passion for doing things right contributing to the already established coding standards best practice and processes.

Your Mission

This role is to join the development team. As part of the team you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our internal applications as well as our customer facing website. The role also extends to assisting with maintaining our legacy codebase while also redeveloping it for brown and greenfield projects integrated with third part providers where necessary. You will take full ownership of you work throughout the software development lifecycle ensuring code is adequately dev tested before being handed over to the QA team raising a change request and subsequently deploying your work to production.

You will contribute to our sprint ceremonies and get involved in the full development lifecycle developing testing and deploying high quality code through our environments into Production using an established automated CI/CD pipeline. You will also be involved in maintaining and contributing to coding standards the team follow.

• High Quality Code You will take requirements provided by the business to then estimate design develop test and deploy software to meet the business needs. You will follow coding standards writing performant reusable code with a very low defect rate. You will contribute to coding standards and contribute ideas to the technology involved in our solutions.

• Agile Planning Contribute through our Agile planning ceremonies of stand ups backlog refinement planning and overview sessions. You will estimate work to the best of your ability and give concise updates on progress.

• Support Applications You will be involved in supporting applications in production working on priority issues when they arise. There is also an out of hours rotation of support for applications we are responsible for. You will help our wider business with issues that are highly impactful.

• Support Your Team You will be working collaboratively with your team supporting others when necessary by giving advice and pair programming on problems.

Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart

Mandatory

• Skilled in C# HTML CSS and JavaScript
• Skilled in developing and utilising JavaScript frameworks like Angular React or Vue
• Adept at developing and interfacing with APIs
• Familiar with Agile methodology
• Knowledgeable in design patterns and their application
• Experienced in Unit Testing for both C# and JavaScript
• Competent with Source Control tools such as Git
• Capable of adapting to and learning new technologies
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent at troubleshooting
• Experienced with Visual Studio Pro/Enterprise/Code
• Familiar with Azure DevOps

Desirable

• Skilled in integrating with ERP systems
• Familiar with Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Familiar with Google Cloud
• Proficient in using Google Tag Manager
• Knowledgeable in Grafana
• Competent in TestDriven Development (TDD)
• Skilled in TSQL Databases
• Adept at writing highquality code following SOLID principles
• Experienced with TypeScript
• Skilled in Performance Testing
• Familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Experienced in UI/UX Design

Our PERKS really are The Works

• 25% Colleague Discount! Plus exclusive Double Discount days!
• MyWorks Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers holidays utilities deals tech and more!
• Holiday 33 days including bank holidays.
• Holiday Purchase Purchase an additional 5 days
• CanDo Academy Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
• Wagestream Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life happens!
• Share Scheme Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
• 24/7 support for you and your family Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
• Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs
• And loads more! Long Service Awards pension life assurance Cycle to Work and optional charity giving.

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Our Purpose

To inspire reading. learning creativity and play making lives more fulfilled.

Our Values

We are Crafty We are Caring We are Cando

We Listen. We Care

Each year we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know whats going great and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place youve ever worked! Youll have opportunity to help give us that direction.

Promoting Diversity Inclusion and Applying Reasonable Adjustments

At The Works we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all including underrepresented groups such as ethnic minorities people with disabilities carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian gay bi trans nonbinary or use another term).

We are open to discussions around working hours and flexible working. And where possible well try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments for an interview you might attend with us let us know in your application and well be happy to help!