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 Developers at SMS Plc you will be working 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 Product Owners and Business Analysts to deliver application changes requested by business functions
- Investigate and fix root cause of application defects
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code
- Maintain code quality by writing automated unit and integration tests for all production code
- Collaborate in code reviews of other people’s work, as appropriate
- Carry out Cloud based DevOps activities including defining infrastructure as code
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:
- Professional software development using Java programming language
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and SOLID principles
- Web application development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular
- Familiarity with software design patterns
- Unit testing methodologies and automated testing platforms
- Excellent working knowledge of SQL
- Version control using Git
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) – experience with Cloudformation, ECS, Cloudwatch and Lambda services
- Containerisation using Docker
- Agile development processes
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