Senior Software Developer

About Europa Worldwide Group:

Europa Worldwide Group is an ambitious independent logistics operator with three divisions, Europa Road, Europa Air & Sea, and Europa Warehouse, and has been featured in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 for three years.

The group employs over 1,300 people with 16 sales and customer services sites across the UK and Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, plus Europa’s own teams in Belgium, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, China, India, the UAE and South Africa.

Position Summary:

The Senior Software Developer will be responsible for the design and development of software to meet business requirements whilst positively influencing other staff, development practices and department processes.

This is where you come in:

Our Development Team provides bespoke software solutions to support and improve our business. These solutions are designed and developed "from the ground up" enabling a long term, future proof and fit for purpose solution. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a successful and critical area of the business.

The new Senior Software Developer will bring their proven full stack development experience to a creative, innovative, flexible, and pro-active team. The development practices of the team are agile and pragmatic. We’re looking for like-minded people who want to both learn and help develop practices that make us become more and more successful.

Our Ideal Person will bring:

• A minimum of 4 years proven experience in a full-stack development role
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle
• Essential technology languages: C# and WPF
• Proven experience with Microsoft SQL the database
• Proven experience using the NET core framework / .NET Framework is desirable
• Previous experience working in an in-house development team
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills & strong numerological/mathematical skills
• A commitment to a full-time site based role in New Delhi – working hours somewhat reflective of UK GMT
• Previous experience working with a UK based business
• Shared ideas, and open and honest approach, and a desire to be fully immersed in collaboration and contribution

NB: Please note this is a remote or hybrid offering. However, candidates should be close enough to Gurugram to attend occasional site meetings or ideally work in a hybrid arrangement.

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for building in depth and excellent knowledge of Europa Software Systems and a true understanding of Europa Business areas and practices
• Produce code that is performant, well formatted, efficient, easily readable, maintainable, and appropriately commented
• Participate in code reviews of your own work and lead code reviews of other team member work to ensure a high level of quality
• Contribute to the development of system design policies, standards and selection of architectural components
• Adopt and adapt system design methods, tools and techniques
• Attend and participate in daily stand ups, design and specification meetings, showcases and retrospectives as part of the AGILE work practices of the development team
• Leverage AGILE/XP principles to understand and suggest improvements to the development process
• Take initiative to utilise libraries; pair programming, modern language features and tools where appropriate to solve problems efficiently, whilst adopting a pragmatic approach to solution design

What you can expect from us:

• Competitive salary package
• 18 days annual leave, plus all 10 bank holidays
• 7 days casual annual leave
• Laptop & Iphone
• Maternity / Paternity & Adoption pay
• Employee Wellbeing Programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme (Earn up to £500).
• The opportunity to develop, progress and work within a global organisation which is rapidly growing.
• Charity 50-50
• Long service awards