.Net Developer

Job content

Our Client, one of the UK’s top search and digital agencies, seeks a highly skilled, bright and ambitious .Net developer to support their existing creative services and help to grow the skills of the development team.

They are a search and digital agency working on disrupting marketing with big data. This Agency are part of a large group, who are on the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 list of fastest growing private technology companies and provide their clients SEO, PPC, Website Design, Social Media Management and Data Science. This role is within the Apollo Insights team which is growing to be the primary source of data for the entire group.

Apollo Insights - the product.

Apollo Insights gathers data from customer websites, 3rd party APIs (e.g. Google Ads) and search engines. It crunches the data using a range of processes from simple html parsing to analysis with machine learning algorithms. The aim is to provide the insights and data feeds required by the other teams to make our customers’ websites easy to find and memorable to visit.

Apollo Insights has a lot of moving parts: containerised data ingress applications, data processing applications ranging from SQL jobs through AWS Lambdas to containerised applications, a large RDS database, an ASP.NET MVC website (being rewritten with Vue on the frontend) and various APIs.

The role- your next job?

We are looking for people who like to learn, code and care about end users. Their go to language is C#, their platform is AWS, their methodologies are agile. Their roadmap is flexible. Right now, they are rewriting a chunk of their website to improve the UX, next month who knows - but they always spend the time to get the job done right with the best technologies.

You Need To Know Or Want To Learn About

C# - .Net Core - ASP.Net MVC, Vue - MS SQL - Docker - AWS - Node JS - Python - Vue - Machine Learning - Agile Processes

Company Benefits

This Company are building a team and product for the long term here. They will support your personal development and they have significant freedom to develop the technical side of the product in the direction you want - and they have expert advice from within the company about new features and opportunities they can exploit.

You’ll get 25 days holiday plus your birthday and bank holidays off. Extra pension benefits (above and beyond auto enrolment) and health insurance kick in with length of service.

Finally, you’ll be working in a great office with views over Portsmouth harbour and with a great bunch of people who are experts in their fields.

This job is based either remotely or in the beautiful Portsmouth office, working alongside their talented and friendly team of web developers, designers and UX specialists.

Team Culture

The creative team is a talented, friendly and supportive group of designers, developers and UX specialists. They have a varied and interesting workload consisting of a mix of retainers and project work, so there’s opportunity to build strong relationships with clients and get to know their brands.

They are relaxed and informal in the office or at home and enjoy jokes and cat GIFs, but they also work hard, focus and get stuff done when they need to.

These guys are always looking to develop and add to their skill-sets, and keep up to date with trends and developments in their respective fields, so any new skills you can bring to the table would be appreciated.

They have regular team lunches and drinks as well as joining in with company-wide events. They also enjoy tea. A LOT of tea.

What The Company Will Give You

• Laptop and monitors
• Your choice of Mac or PC
• Positive environment with a focus on learning and development
• Access to a variety of experienced colleagues who are all happy to help, so you’ll have access a great support network
• Proper dev work (no downloaded themes or jamming plugins in everywhere) - we build things from scratch as much as possible, and have our own framework that you can add elements to
• You’ll work on small & large, straightforward & complex projects, so there’s plenty of opportunity to grow as a developer
• Entirely optional company activities (e.g. beer Friday, yoga, quizzes)
• Periodic homemade cake
  

Company Benefits

• Relaxed, collaborative culture where autonomy is valued and encouraged
• 22-25 days of holiday per year, plus your birthday off
• Self-scheduled/flexible working hours, and the ability to work from home or in the office entirely dependent on your own preference
• Cycle to work scheme access
• Opportunities for growth and development within a growing company
• Private pension and healthcare scheme (after qualifying time period)
  

If this is the perfect opportunity for you, please apply today!