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:

• Experience in a full-stack development role
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle
• Technology languages: C# and WPF

**NB – The company currently operate on the WPF framework – but we are working towards next generation systems. Your knowledge of WPF or ability to adapt quickly is a key component in this role and the system transition’

• Proven experience with Microsoft SQL
• Proven experience using the NET core framework / .NET Framework is desirable
• Front end WEB development experience is desirable
• Previous experience working with 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 UTC
• Previous experience working with a UK based business
• Shared ideas, an open and honest approach, and a desire to be fully immersed in collaboration & contribution

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
• 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

*Please note this role offers no sponsorship opportunities to work in the UK

Europa Worldwide Group do not accept agency CV submissions unless specifically requested/ engaged with the role by the Internal Recruitment Team. Please do not submit speculative CV’S to our Recruiters, Employees, Hiring Managers, or any branches/locations directly. Europa will not be responsible for any fees related to CV’s received in this unsolicited manner.

Please note - if you submit your CV, you are giving Europa Worldwide Group Ltd, and its subsidiaries consent to hold your personal data. All applications will be dealt with according to General Data Protection Regulations. Europa Worldwide Group are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.