Why choose us?
Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050. 
What's in it for you?
- 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
- Hybrid working options.
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption leave.
- 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
- Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
- Share Incentive Plan.
- Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)
- Pension matching scheme (upto 5% of salary)
- Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.
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What's the role?
As a Software Developer at SMS Plc you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team extending and maintaining critical business systems. Your role will involve writing software to a high standard of quality and maintainability using best practices and tools.
You will be working closely with business analysts and product owners, the software delivery teams play an important part in developing systems that fulfil new business opportunities and make existing system more efficient.
You will be involved in the full DevOps cycle, by designing, building, testing, deploying, operating, and maintaining internal software applications at SMS.
Key responsibilities:
- Work closely with Business Analysts, QA Analysts and more senior Software Developers to deliver application changes requested by business functions
- Investigate and fix root cause of application defects
- Build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
- Maintain code quality by writing automated unit and integration tests for all production code
- Carry out DevOps activities including defining AWS infrastructure as code using CloudFormation templates
- Any other duties as required
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:
- Software development using C# programming language (essential)
- Familiarity of object-oriented programming and SOLID principles
- Web application development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Familiarity with software design patterns
- Knowledge of SQL
- Awareness of the following
- Unit testing methodologies
- Version control using Git
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Agile development processes
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