Job Overview
Company logo: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C560BAQG1aIiR8oVvAg/company-logo_400_400/company-logo_400_400/0/1631417773796/commify_logo?e=1749081600&v=beta&t=5D7G-bKuB559qZP6Iy65uqvbMX1bTwx9tGwSYB7Ipok Welcome to Commify, a leading communications platform that specialises in providing innovative messaging solutions to businesses around the world. Our mission is to make business communication brilliant by leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver seamless and reliable messaging services.
As a Software Engineer within our Customer Upgrades team, you will build, deliver and maintain cloud scalable API’s and ETL tooling to ensure successful customer upgrades from existing Commify products to the strategic Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS).
As a technologist, you will use your experience and passion to collaborate with the team to achieve the goals and commitments. You will work with the Engineering Manager and Technical Lead to ensure there is close collaboration across the team structure.
We pride ourselves on being a dynamic and collaborative team. We value creativity, innovation, and continuous learning. If you’re passionate about technology and want to make a real impact in the communications industry, we would love to hear from you.
Requirements
To support our future product and technology strategy, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer who can design and deliver highly performant, scalable, and mission-critical software systems. As part of a close-knit, highly collaborative team, you’ll be involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle. You’ll contribute to agile ceremonies, work closely with product managers and owners to refine requirements into deliverable user stories and tasks, and collaborate with the engineering manager, technical lead, architects, and product owner on technical input into stories and designs.
The Role:
Developing key internal API’s that will allow existing customer details to be Loaded ( i.e. the L in ETL) into the new CPaaSDeveloping new implementations of existing public facing API’s. These new emulations of existing API’s will match existing API contracts and behaviours but will map into the new CPaaS to complete functions such as SMS message sends or account balance enquiryUnderstand data models for existing messaging products in order to perform a mapping of entities into the strategic CPaaS in order to extract, transform and load data using the afore mentioned internal API’s Taking part in all stages of the software development lifecycle as part of a close-knit, highly collaborative and continuously improving teamContributing to agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, planning meetings and retrospectivesWorking closely with product managers to refine requirements into deliverable user stories and tasksProviding specialist technical support to colleagues, both in and out of hoursInvestigating, designing, planning and estimating potential projects and featuresBeing the initial contact point for development sub-teams working on a work stream within the larger teamSupporting team members in delivering to designs and internal standardsAssisting Technical Lead and Engineering Manager in peer/coding reviewsDrive a positive experience through the development team, foster a culture of continuous improvement & learning, and quickly resolve resource and prioritisation conflictsAligning the engineering team to deliver product features that meet customer outcomes and use data to continuously learn, test and improve the quality and value of featuresWorking closely with the Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Architects and Product Owner, both internal to the team but also across the Engineering layer, on technical input into stories and designs
The Person:
Essential
Demonstrable experience of delivering high quality software in one or more modern languagesSolid understanding of scalable cloud solutions using development frameworks and languages in C# .NET/.NET Core Demonstrable experience of analysing ER databases in order to generate documentation to describe entities and relationships prior to proposing an ETL approachDemonstrable experience of ETL projects using C#Demonstrable experience designing and implementing public and private REST API developmentCreative problem-solving ability and appetite to field support calls from customers during the upgrade processGood attention to detailTeam working skillsStrong communication and documentation skillsAbility to prioritise and adhere to deadlinesAn ability to apply measured self-restraint, empathy and courtesy to others during challenging situations, for example, when dealing with a difference of opinionThorough understanding of version control – exposure to GitHubWorking in and understanding the core principles of Agile methodologyPassionate in defining best practises to ensure the codebase meets industry best standards as a minimum Good understanding of Microsoft Azure services
Desirable
Experience of mentoring team members in professional and personal developmentGood understanding of CI/CD pipeline and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)Kong API GatewayGraphQLInfrastructure as Code scripting using TerraformExperience working with international teamsAtlassian JIRA and Confluence experience
Benefits
Competitive Salary £50 – 60,000Company Bonus Scheme based on performance Private Healthcare & Dental27 days annual leave plus Bank HolidaysBirthday off workWellbeing days off and giving back days 5% employer pension contributionDeath in service (4x salary)Access to „Calm” a wellbeing and mental health app for you and your family End of year rewardMonthly/quarterly socialsTraining & Development opportunitiesHybrid working