Software Developer

Software Developer

Salary: Up to £45k (Depending on experience and qualification)

Location: Remote (working from home)

Are you a self-motivated, innovative, highly driven Software Developer with proven experience of agile software development life cycles?

We are looking for a confident, dynamic and energetic individual to join our UK-based team as Software Developer.

The Company

Based in the United Kingdom, and established more than 30 years ago, Artifax Software is a dynamic, industry-leading cloud software company which develops, supports, and delivers software and solutions for venue and event management.

Working primarily with organisations within the arts and culture sector, Artifax supports household names globally including theatres, concert halls, arts centres, festivals, museums, galleries, visitor attractions and places of worship.

We are innovative and entrepreneurial, always looking for new ways to improve our software and services.

Supporting over 400 customers worldwide, we are part of Volaris Group, a global family of more than 450 software companies, owned by a publicly traded multi-billion-dollar organisation. This allows us to benefit from a wide network of specialist knowledge, resource and expertise.

With significant growth plans in the UK and globally, this is a fantastic time to join the team.

Job description

Working as part of an established team, you will be central to our high growth strategy, maintaining, developing and enhancing Artifax?s core products and shaping the future of venue and event management solutions.

Reporting directly to the Head of Technologies, as a Software Developer, you will collaborate with passionate professionals, drive innovation, and make a tangible impact every day.

Within this role you will have an opportunity to develop highly desirable industry skills working with software, platforms, technologies, and methodologies such as PHP, CodeIgniter, Laravel, HMVC, Scrum, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows Server/IIS, HTML, jQuery, JavaScript, and AWS.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, will have an understanding of source code control (for example GIT), agile development, will have a passion for SaaS application development and will be a team player.

Key duties, involvement, and responsibilities

• Design well-architected software and write clean, efficient code
• Develop 3rd party integrations
• Work on product technologies to ensure they are on supported versions
• Provide technical mentorship on technologies, frameworks, methods and standards to other members of the development team
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
• Articulate multiple solutions and their trade-offs
• Design and optimise relational database structures to ensure data integrity and scalability
• Conduct thorough testing of developed features, ensure high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed customer expectations
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve the development process and system functionality
• Produce specifications
• Provide constructive feedback during requirement reviews
• Provide thoughtful estimates of effort
• Ask questions in order to define requirements and align on approaches
• Provide Software support and maintenance

Required qualifications & skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from an accredited college or university or a certificate from a technical training institute
• At least three years' experience of working in the software development industry within an agile environment
• Exceptional analytical, creative, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Back-End Development and Software Development skills
• Back-End Web Development and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills
• Experience with PHP, PHP frameworks like CodeIgniter and Laravel, MSSQL/MySQL, Git, and RESTful APIs
• Experience with Web Technologies ? HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (jQuery and Angular or other similar JavaScript libraries or frameworks)
• Experience with PHP version migration
• Experience with relational databases in the area of schema design, stored procedures, and query optimisation
• Experience working on complete software development life cycle

Desirable (but not essential) skills

• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Servers/IIS
• Wamp, Apache, or Nginx
• Knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu)
• Understanding or experience with C#/.NET framework
• Experience developing on an AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience leading and mentoring small development teams

Ideally you?ll have....

• An understanding of and enthusiasm for the Scrum methodology
• Ability to deliver best results with determination; ability to recognise obstacles and resolve problems quickly; be resilient and not daunted by setbacks
• Ability to set specific, ambitious objectives and meet or exceed them
• Ability to understand and interpret customers' challenges or defects and perform debugging processes to resolve them
• Ability to communicate clearly, considering the needs of audience, to ensure the message has been received as intended
• High motivation and an ability to work independently as well as within team
• Ability to manage and respond quickly to changing priorities
• Willing and keen to learn
• A passion for software development
• A hunger and desire to succeed

What's on offer....

• Permanent Role
• Full time, 37.5 hours per week
• Flexible working hours
• Working from home, but required to attend ?in-person? meetings, briefings, training courses and other company events as and when the business may require.
• Fantastic career progression opportunities
• Opportunity to collaborate, share best practice with, and learn from like-minded colleagues across a large global network of companies
• Potential travel within the UK and abroad on the Company?s business
• Inclusion on the Company?s discretionary bonus plan
• Company Pension
• Option to join Company?s health cash plan
• Access to learning platforms
• Inclusion on the Company?s perks and wellbeing plan
• 25 days leave p/a increasing up to 33 with length of service

Please note that as the role is UK based, you will need to be resident in the United Kingdom with the right to live and work in this country to be considered for this position.

Closing date: Tuesday 2nd July 2024