Kortext is the UK’s leading personal learning platform and a global
supplier of digital textbooks to the higher education sector. We work
with some of the biggest names in publishing and supply millions of
students worldwide with the materials they need to succeed in their
education.
Due to ongoing expansion, we are now looking for a number of
experienced full stack developers with an emphasis on back-end
development to join us at the beginning of 2019 for a contract to
support the delivery of our ambitious product strategy.
As a Senior C# .NET Developer, you will:
- Help to develop and deploy new functionality for Kortext’s proprietary learning platform
- Utilise your full-stack experience and focus on back-end development
- Discuss and analyse specifications to refine requirements and propose solutions
- Provide level of effort (LOE) estimates
- Support critical or escalated customer issues
- Help to embed scalable development processes
- Write efficient reusable and reliable code
- Deal with bugs and maintenance issues
- Perform unit tests and code reviews
- Assist with QA testing and troubleshooting
- Provide a point of contact for stakeholders
- Identify areas of potential process improvement
- Participate in business projects and initiatives
Please note, the hours you work will need to have at leave five hours overlap with EST (GMT-5).
Interested?
To join Kortext as a Senior C# .NET Developer, you will need:
- Significant experience with the Microsoft stack and the C family of programming languages
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure and GCP
- Design and architecture knowledge, as well as familiarity with object oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
- Solid knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL data stores,
database design, querying, and the trade-offs between different database
types such as Firestore, Redis, MongoDB, MSSQL, Postgres and MySQL
Experience of building multi-tier architecture solutions would be
beneficial to your application. Proficiency in Go, Typescript, and
JavaScript (ES6) would also be an advantage, as would experience with
Git repo management.
Other organisations may call this role Back-End Developer, Full
Stack Developer, Software Architect, Software Developer, Backend
Developer, Back End Software Developer, Software Engineer, Full Stack
Programmer, Software Programmer, or Back-End Programmer.
The Benefits:
- Excellent salary
- Work from home
- Enjoy a fast-paced, exciting working environment
- Support the success of a platform that’s at the forefront of education’s digital revolution
- Consolidate your skill-set
- Work with talented Designers, Systems Engineers and Software Engineers in a global development operation
Webrecruit and Kortext are equal opportunities employers, value
diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment
opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.
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