VB.NET Software Developer at Salary Finance
About Salary Finance
Working with employers, we provide a financial wellbeing platform as an employee benefit, helping employees to understand their money better, get out of debt faster and save for their future. We already have a reach of over 4,000,000 employees through our relationships with over 600 of the biggest companies in the UK.
By improving employee financial wellbeing, we have a very real and meaningful impact on people’s lives. We remove the stress and worry associated with financial difficulties by dramatically reducing the interest rates employees pay on their personal debt, and provide them with the tools needed to start saving sooner and be more financially secure. We are backed by some of the biggest brands, including investments from Blenheim Chalcot (the UK’s leading venture builder), Legal and General (the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager), Experian and Goldman Sachs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money.
Launched in 2015, we have made excellent progress, and are scaling fast. We are named BITC’s Responsible Business of Year 2018, included in KPMG’s Global Fintech 100, listed top of the Forbes' list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Telegraph, CityAM and the Institute of Directors.
Your role in our mission
We’re looking for talented and experienced Software Developers to join our Development Team. You’ll use your technical excellence and a collaborative approach to solve problems for our clients and staff. The development team is at the very heart of Salary Finance’s mission, which means you’ll be working on making us more efficient and effective, making our lives, and the lives of our clients better.
We deal with people’s money at Salary Finance, and we take that responsibility seriously. You’ll need an eye for detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a deep desire to produce quality solutions.
What you’ll do
You’ll work closely with colleagues in India, the UK and South Africa, across the development and product teams and beyond. This is a product engineering role rather than a pure programming role - you’ll be involved across the whole of the product life cycle, from inception to operation.
We work in an agile and fast moving environment, and this means every day is different at Salary Finance. From supporting colleagues in our Operations teams to get the right outcomes for our customers, to developing features for our internal management tools, to working on financial ledgers, this is a hugely varied role.
You’ll be working primarily on our loans platform which is written in VB.NET and uses a SQL Server database. However, you’ll be expected to work across all the products and services at Salary Finance - these are mostly written in C# with MySQL databases and Vue.js front-ends, with some using Python. Everything runs in AWS.
About you
You’ll have a minimum of 5 years commercial full-stack VB.NET software development experience using SQL Server databases.
You’ll have solid experience with C# and MySQL. It would be a bonus if you know Vue.js and Python.
You’ll have a good understanding and experience with modern software development practices and patterns, including AWS, agile methodologies, unit and integration testing (including test driven development), integration with APIs, containers, and CI/CD.
You’ll need to be equally comfortable with solving problems, designing solutions, coding, reviewing, testing and debugging.
We use Vue.js and it would be ideal if you have up-to-date experience with that. If you’ve only ever worked with Angular or React, or older versions of Vue.js, that’s fine.
You’ll need to be an excellent team player, and be able to demonstrate a collaborative approach to your work. You will need excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be able to adapt your communication style effectively to any audience, junior or senior, technical or non-technical. You’ll need to be comfortable dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
Who you are
We embrace our differences, but there’s one thing we like to share, which is our values, so it’s important to us that you are:
- Fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
- Responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
- Dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
- Empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer.
- United, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
- Humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.
