Regular .NET Developer

Role description:

Join a rapidly growing collaborative of disruptive technology companies working together to build a brilliant fintech payments business with exceptional people and the best products and services.

Since our inception in 2018, we’ve scaled our portfolio to encompass nearly 40 leading brands and now number in excess of 1000 employees globally.  Across our SaaS platforms, we’re creating an environment where talented entrepreneurs and their businesses can thrive. As a ClearCourse employee, you’ll benefit from the feel of an innovative, close-knit tech start-up environment where you’ll be able to collaborate with exceptional people and fast track your career.

The partnership launched a new payments business, ClearAccept, to deliver this service, by assembling a highly accomplished team with a track record of successfully launching new payments technology.  Our innovative payments platform is built using a cloud native microservice architecture running on AWS using serverless infrastructure (AWS ECS + Fargate). We store all our code in GIT and use Git flow as our branching strategy. Our CI/CD process is managed by our DevOps team using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and all our services are covered by automation tests using BDD.  All our services are developed using a minimum of dotnet core 3.1 with C# and we develop API first. We provide a REST API that allows other platforms to integrate with us. We store our data in various database engines managed by AWS (Aurora using PostgresSQL and DynamoDB). We utilise services from the cloud provider where possible.

As we continue to enhance the platform and accelerate delivery we require a Developer to work as part of our development team to assist with delivering new product features and capability.

Key Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and QA Automation Engineers to contribute to the development and delivery of new product features using the following technologies :-
  • Languages: C#, .NET, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js,  jquery, CSS
  • Databases: AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS DynamoDB, MS-SQL, MongoDB, AWS DocumentDB, AWS ElastiCache Redis
  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (API Gateway, Fargate, SQS, SNS, KMS, SecretManager, Cognito, Lambda (Python), etc), Localstack, Docker
• Analyse business requirements, internal designs and non-functional requirements and estimate user stories collaboratively with the team.
• Follow industry best practices, coding guidelines and secure development practices, and ensure other members of the team do likewise.
• Understand and maintaining awareness of technology, software design and development methodology trends and contribute to strategy through the suggestions of suitable solutions to meet business / product needs.

Follow lean/agile principles and help to continually improve processes and practices.

Required skills and experience:

• Professional level (3+ years' experience) as a Developer within a modern software environment
• Strong Web API experience
• Experience in asynchronous, multi-threaded & parallel programming
• Strong experience in SQL & NoSQL databases
• Experience in improving, refactoring and rewriting code
• Understanding of design patterns
• Experience using CI/CD build and deployment pipelines.
• Experience of secure coding practices, OWASP Top 10, etc.

Desired skills and experience:

• Payments Industry experience advantageous
• Experience with CQRS would be advantageous.

Required behaviours and attributes:

• Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies and techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proactive in identifying areas for improvement in the development process.
• Collaborative approach to work with developers, testers, and other stakeholders.

Advocate of development practices including TDD/BDD & DDD.

Why choose ClearCourse?

Join a rapidly growing collaborative of disruptive technology companies working together to build a brilliant software and payments business with exceptional people and the best products and services.

Across our portfolio of tech platforms, we’re creating an environment where talented entrepreneurs and businesses flourish.

ClearCourse was formed in 2018 with investment from New York-based private equity firm Aquiline to build a portfolio of complementary software with our own integrated payments platform and professional service businesses.

Our headquarters are in London, and within our UK based operation, we’ve been adding (through acquisition) a new business to our group at the rate of almost one each month. These market-leading software businesses form our five divisions across a number of verticals, with our integrated payments platform, ClearAccept, intrinsic to the entire organisation.

Our team is over 900 people strong, and we work from home and offices throughout the UK.

Working better together is central to everything we do, which is an advantage, as each time we add a new business, we’re adding new ideas and innovation.

Our vision and mission is to build a brilliant business with the best products and the best people, and by integrating our software and payments platform, we’re able to deliver the best solution for our customers.