Junior Software Developer in Edinburgh

Job description

Who We Are

ClearSky are the digital transformation agency for scale-ups and established businesses who believe you don’t need to be held back by technology.

Whether they need bespoke software to help their customers self serve, a mobile app to manage customer engagement or automation to make sure their staff are spending time on what matters most. 

We work with companies which have ambitious plans for growth, and we help get them where they want to go, accelerating them and delighting their customers. Our team has grown quickly since launching ClearSky back in 2018 and now has over 20 exceptionally talented people onboard.

The team’s skills vary across design UX UI, marketing, software development, testing and project management. We work across various industries including Energy, renewables, property tech and much more. We are a recent winner of Innovate UK and will be bringing a revolutionary platform to the UK in 2021.

What Will The Role Look Like

We are looking for an aspiring Junior Software Developer to join our team, someone who loves building products and making an impact for end users. You will gain experience across multiple types of tech across various platforms and you will have the opportunity to be mentored by one of the more senior members of the team. We hire amazing talent at Clearsky so you will be working alongside many exceptional software developers and over time your skills and confidence will grow quickly.

ClearSky believes strongly in personal development, you will be encouraged to take on responsibility, agree learning goals and apply leadership throughout the role.

What Projects Do We Take On

• Platform Development
• Mobile Apps
• Web Apps
• API Builds
• Automation
• The tech we work on is all hosted in the cloud across Azure and AWS

A Typical Day

• You’ll be online remotely from around 9, the team communicate with Slack and video calls on google hangouts.
• At 9:30am we have our daily standup and review the progress yesterday and any problems or upcoming work
• You will work on your current task - pairing with another developer if needed. Typical tasks include building out new features to existing web apps or extending APIs with new endpoints.
• Once your task is completed you will test and raise a pull request for one of the other developers to provide advice on the change. You will also be responsible for reviewing other members of the teams work through pull requests.
• The rest of the day is mainly working through your tickets on Jira or Trello, working closely with the rest of the development team, testing work and deploying to the required environments.
• Most people log off between 4.30 and 5.30, occasionally you may be involved in an out of hours deployment for systems which are required to have no downtime during core hours.

Why Join ClearSky?

• You want to be at an ambitious company which is growing quickly
• You like autonomy, to be trusted to find the answer to a problem or adapt to your own ways of working.
• You believe in sharing knowledge, stepping in to help your team whenever possible
• You are a people person and want to be able to manage long running relationships with our clients.

The Package

Basic Salary £22,000 - £27,500

Bonus 10% Per Annum

Private Healthcare

Pension

We Believe In Our Values

These focus on the type of person we want to hire into the team, we use our values to measure performance of individuals, teams and company as a whole. 

Trust

We are a team who trust each other and this is reflected in all our internal and external interactions.

We earn our Client’s trust through the quality, consistency of the work we do and the way they communicate with them. As a team we are confident in each other’s expertise and ability to deliver projects to the highest level of excellence.

Simplicity 

We never overcomplicate things, whether it’s the work we do or the way we talk to our Clients and each other. We are concise and use simple language at every stage of communication. Nothing is hidden or disguised, we are always upfront and straight-forward.

Initiative

We are ready and able to lead the way in making decisions. We approach every task proactively and with positivity. We see problems as challenges to make things better and tackle them with energy and enthusiasm.

Being Supportive

We are always here for our Clients and our colleagues. Our achievements come from the ability to understand different situations and the intelligence to deliver the type and level of support required. Together we are greater than the sum of our parts and as a team we encourage each other and our Clients to generate the best results.

Location

Team currently working remotely due to Covid, anticipated new office opening in 2021 in Edinburgh. Even when the office is open we believe in offering flexibility to our team so a 3 day in the office and 2 optionally working from home will be offered.

Minimum Requirements

• Demonstrate personal projects through github or similar
• Have a portfolio (if you are more focused on being a frontend developer)

Must Have 

• C#

Technical Skillset Nice to Have

• CSS
• HTML5
• Entity Framework
• MSSQL
• Net Core
• REST / Web API
• React
• Azure
• AWS

Extra information

Status

Closed

Education Level

Other

Location

Edinburgh

Working hours per week

4 - 40

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Profession type

Training

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English