Developer

London or Reigate - Hybrid

Who are Just?

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.

We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.

Purpose

To develop, support and maintain software solutions in line with the Company’s architectural vision, and in accordance with departmental standards and practices

• Developing Bespoke Applications : To develop high-quality bespoke applications using appropriate, industry-standard tools, technologies and languages. Aligned to the organizational target architecture. 

• Technical documentation : To ensure that appropriate high-quality documentation is developed, maintained, regularly reviewed and stored for all solutions developed.

• Quality assurance : To perform peer reviews of code and documentation in order to ensure that procedures and standards are followed consistently.  Continuously work towards the objective of building in quality and provide appropriately tested solutions.

• Continuous improvement : To contribute to the improvement of the code base, and project and development processes.

• Incident and Problem Management: Take action as L2 & L3 support for the incident and problem management process, when needed

• Agile Techniques : Actively participate and contribute to adoption of Agile practices.

• DevOps:

• Preparation of all release content and documentation, ensuring it is fit for purpose when required.  Take an active role in continually improving deployment capability and maximising deployment reliability and quality in all environments. Designing and implementing IT infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.

• Process Optimization: Establishing DevOps processes to streamline code deployments and improve time-to-market.

• Collaboration: Working closely with developers to ensure efficient software delivery.

• Quality Assurance: Conducting QA to meet prescribed guidelines.

• Security: Securing software to prevent security breaches and vulnerabilities

• Maintain competence : To maintain your own competence and personal development.

• Develop and maintain software solutions in an Agile environment working collaboratively with internal teams (Developers, Testers, DevOps Engineers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and Business Users) to produce software solutions, designs and architecture. 

• Take an active role in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, planning and retrospectives. 

• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages and SOLID principles. 

• Write unit and integration tests to improve code coverage and quality. 

• Deploy applications and systems through DTAP environments introducing CI/CD wherever possible. 

• Revise, update, refactor and debug code.

• Ensure code written is adequately documented through commenting or wiki articles.

• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support.

• Take part in cross team activities such as communities of practice.

Experience

• Good proven experience in a commercial environment in delivering solutions in Microsoft stack: .NET framework, VB, C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, and Microsoft SQL Server.

• Experience with Azure: Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL Database.

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes in Azure environments.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 would be desirable.

• Experience and knowledge of Agile, XP and DevOps development and testing practises and techniques.  For Example: TDD, SOLID, BDD. 

• Good experience and knowledge of Microsoft development, test and project technologies.  

• Experience with IT development processes and delivery lifecycles; development methodology; release strategy and configuration management; development tools, and applications across full project lifecycles. 

Qualifications and Skills

• Computer science / computing related qualification 

• A team player to proactively work in an Agile project environment. 

• Work within SOLID principles. 

• Incorporate Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development.

• An aptitude for systems development and the ability to understand and manage complex concepts.

• A willingness to learn new skills and adopt to new technologies.

Company Benefits

• A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance

• Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday

• Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case

• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets

• Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company

• FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)

• A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal

• Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.

Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.