Software Engineer

About Kinetic
We are the UK's leading supplier of event management and student accommodation software to the higher education sector. Our team of 75 people work out of our Milton Keynes (HQ) and Ludlow offices in the UK and from our US office, generating annual revenues of around £10m; we're growing at around 15% per annum. We're owned by Constellation Software Inc., one of the largest software groups in the world, providing fantastic opportunities for benchmarking, sharing best practice and learning.
Kinetic proudly supports 84% of UK and Irish universities, 60 universities in North America, as well as unique venues such as Lords Cricket Ground and the Merlin Group with our deep and powerful software offering. The culture at Kinetic is one of passion, drive and fun where everyone pulls together to deliver an outstanding customer experience, growth and profit.
At Kinetic, we constantly strive to find the right people and provide all the tools and support to allow us to develop both personally and professionally. We are looking for bright and dynamic individuals who can bring energy and enthusiasm to a demanding role within a rapidly growing and successful company.

Summary

Currently, Kinetic supply traditional client/server enterprise software hosted either on-premises by the customer or by us in Microsoft Azure. We are now in the process of reimagining our product set to a web-based, multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud solution built in Amazon Web Services.

Kinetic Software is seeking an experienced C# .NET Developer to support the existing solutions for events management and student accommodation professionals.

Candidate Background:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or a certificate from a technical training institute
Demonstrable software development experience working in both frontend and back-end technology stacks
Passionate about delivering on-time and to a high level of quality as part of an Agile team
Capable of taking initiative, estimating and contributing to requirements without reliance on fully documented specifications and instructions for every detail.

Essential skills

C# .net, ASP.net (Web Forms, MVC, WebAPI SOAP)
Experience working with MS SQL Server and Transact SQL
Delivered complex frontend solutions using web technologies (HTML5/CSS3/SASS/JS/JQuery)
Agile tooling – Atlassian JIRA – for estimation and planning work
GIT for source code management and CI/CD pipeline tooling such as Gitlab/Jenkins/Bamboo etc.
Effective communication skills and demonstrated ability to explain day to day technical concepts to a range of audiences, technical and non-technical
Packaging and deploying of supporting frontend services using containerisation methods such as Docker/Kubernetes etc.
IIS and SQL Server configuration.
Attention to detail when working within live production environments.

Desirable skills

Experience of packaging and deploying applications to AWS and awareness of services often adopted by SPAs
Experience designing RESTful APIs
Experience in architecting and building frontend applications using a Micro Frontend architecture

Benefits

Contour Software is committed to provide exciting learning opportunities, quality of work, and work-life balance to its employees.
Our benefits package includes:

Market-leading Salary
Medical Coverage Self & Dependents
Parents Medical Coverage
Provident Fund
Employee Performance-based bonuses
Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees only]
Home Internet Subsidy
Conveyance Allowance
Life Benefit
Child Care Facility
Professional Development Budget
Leaves Encashment
Recreational area for in-house games
Sporadic On-shore training opportunities
Friendly work environment

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