Software Developer X3

Description:

The IT Services department is critical to the delivery of those objectives, providing innovative, best of breed infrastructure and services that support all aspects of the customer experience. The software development teams are responsible for providing the technical infrastructure underpinning many of the University's core enterprise systems, such as the virtual learning environment, student record system, finance and HR systems. These are large, complex systems and we work closely with other departments to integrate, adapt and develop these software applications to meet new requirements emerging in response to a competitive Higher Education environment. We also develop a number of in-house products, with examples including our module catalogue, our staff directory and our student mobile app, MyUoY.

Role

As a software developer in one of our agile teams you will work on a range of strategic projects, developing web applications and integrating business systems around your service area.

You’ll be involved in all aspects of software development: planning, writing and delivering software, maintaining automated tests and CI/CD pipelines and contributing to your team’s product roadmap.

You will use a mix of modern tools and technologies including AWS, Node.js, React in JavaScript/TypeScript and GitHub Workflows.

You will be working in a highly collaborative environment, with opportunities to attend developer sessions and communities of practice, spend up to one afternoon a week on personal development and optionally do pair programming.

We are committed to supporting our staff to learn new skills and as such would like to actively encourage applications from people who can bring new experiences and ideas, have the right attitude and aptitude.

Reward

As well as the advertised salary and market supplement we offer a range of excellent benefits including:

• 30 Days annual leave (38 days with bank holidays)
• We offer a flexitime scheme, providing flexibility with start and finish times, and provision to take 3 additional flexi-leave days in a quarter.
• We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff.
• Up to 2 volunteering days per year (pro-rata) as part of the Staff Volunteering Scheme
• Staff training and development courses
• Hybrid working
• Hybrid final salary and contribution based pension scheme with a 21.6% employer contribution rate