Job Title: Software Developer

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000

The Business:

Founded by a team of financial experts and ex-MAT professionals, IMP Software has a deep understanding of the challenges facing multi-academy trusts. Our mission is to empower multi-academy trusts with the tools and expertise they need to manage their finances more efficiently and effectively. That's why we're trusted by trusts across the country to provide the only budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software designed specifically for them. From a standing start, in less than 5 years we are now used by most large trusts to help them deliver smarter MAT Finance.

We're proud to be at the forefront of innovation in the MAT finance sector, and we're constantly looking for ways to improve our offering. We work closely with our customers to understand their requirements so that we can tailor our product to their specific needs, and our team is always available to provide expert advice and support.

But at our core, we're more than just a software company. We're a team of passionate and dedicated professionals, committed to helping multi-academy trusts achieve their financial goals. We believe that financial planning should be simpler, more accessible, and more transparent, and we're proud to be leading the way in supporting smarter MAT finance.

At IMP we are very aware that the success of our business will be directly correlated to the quality of the team that we can attract and more importantly retain! Due to this core belief, IMP offers fantastic career progression within a business that places huge importance on the happiness of the team, through our respectful, fun(!) and supportive culture + flexible working, regular socials and funded/encouraged CPD.

Role Description:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our team at IMP Software. Software Developers work on cross functional teams to deliver solutions such as IMP Planner and Purchasing.

The successful candidate will be a collaborative developer, who takes pride not just in the pragmatism of their solutions, but the quality of their code.

Key responsibilities:

Agile Software Development

• Design, develop, and test software solutions in our tech stack including ASP.Net, MVC, C#, SQL, Blazor
• Collaborate with a team of peers, applying agile practices such as pair programming and code reviews.
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as planning and refinement.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Collaborate with product, development, and test specialists to model solutions for development.
• Participate in exploratory work such as spikes to explore new technology, patterns, and opportunities.

System Design

• Identify and advocate for the judicious use of Azure cloud resources.
• Advocate for non-functional requirements such as scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with senior architecture professionals to guide the direction of the codebase and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain system documentation to allow team members to quickly orient to the codebase.
• Maintain a comprehensive understand of industry tools and standards, advising the team on their implementation.
• Develop to maintainability standards, such as SOLID, functional principles, and clean code.
• Develop to security standards, such as OWASP.

Handling Data

• Champion efficient data access patterns, including Entity Framework, migrations, and blob storage.
• Advocate for judicious use of Azure resources, including web apps, storage accounts, functions, etc.

Skills, experience, and attributes:

Essential Skills:

ASP.NET Core MVC, C#, Blazor

Desirable Skills:

• Familiarity with Telerik Kendo UI or Fluent 2
• SQL and Entity Framework
• Payroll or finance systems experience.
• Microsoft Azure

Benefits:

• 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays
• AXA Health insurance including dental and mental health
• Broadband allowance
• Home office stipend
• Life assurance (4 x basic salary)
• Encouraged and funded CPD