Sr Software Engineer (.Net) - IN chez Crane Authentication

As a partner to businesses and governments, Crane Authentication offers expertise and cutting-edge innovations that protect and enhance products, secure identities, safeguard revenues and enforce compliance. Customers from different business sectors and levels of government trust our team of 1,250 people for their expertise in R&D, security design, engineering and data-driven insights. We are an integral part of Crane NXT, a $2 billion dollar business with over 5,000 associates

Summary:

As a Software Developer, you will form part of a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary Agile product team for one of our key products. We are passionate about writing good quality, highly testable, user-driven software. We are currently undertaking a modernisation program, re-engineering away from Clipper/DBase to a mixture of Java/React/SQLServer. Whilst experience in Clipper and DBase would be advantageous, it's not expected. What’s most important is a solid understanding of Engineering principles and practices and a desire to learn.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

We work together and value people who are collaborative, helping each other and sharing knowledge across the department. We drive change and innovate, we love keeping up with the latest technologies and approaches and furthering ourselves and our teams.

Individual

• Develop quality, simple software in accordance with SOLID, DRY and YAGNI principles;
• Relentlessly focus on our user's need, driving incremental delivery of software that has the highest value and address areas of most risk in a timely manner;
• Work closely across the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the team delivers its commitments;
• Continuously drive improvement with yourself, the team and the department through ways of working with more agility and introducing technologies;
• Promote knowledge sharing across the team and department, ensuring that we work as closely and effectively as possible;

Divisional Authentication

• Support the Divisional leadership team, executing the strategy for Authentication in terms of the core GRS and Brand Protection propositions
• Provide subject matter expertise to support effective decision making provide input as required to the annual strategic planning cycle
• Support and follow the governance and operational disciplines applicable across the division

Common to all roles

• To ensure full participation in the performance development review (PDR) process and maintain an up-to-date record of all training and development activities/programs
• To always act and behave in a way compliant with all Crane Authentication’s company guidelines and policies, especially those relating to values and behaviours, environmental health and safety, ethics and codes of conduct, as it is through living our values that we strengthen the culture of our business and demonstrate our understanding of our Code of Business Principles. Further information on our company values can be found in our “Living the Values” guidelines.

Education, Skills & Knowledge:

• Strong understanding and commercial experience of developing full-stack web applications. Experience with Java or .NET is required.
• Previous responsibility for delivering software end-to-end as part of the whole lifecycle;
• Commercial software development experience of working as part of an agile team;
• Commercial experience of developing software within a continuous deployment environment, with experience of using CI/CD tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps, Octopus, Jenkins);
• Good technical skills with knowledge of solution design and application architecture;

Abilities:

• Ability to envision and deliver software solutions that meet user needs and/or solve business problems - Essential
• Ability to design sophisticated solutions to meet challenging user requirements - Essential
• Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously - Essential
• Ability to articulate and gain engagement for ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences – Essential
• Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment – Desirable

Experience:

• Experience of successfully designing and developing sophisticated software products deployed in a variety of environments – Essential
• Hands-on experience of coding using more than one recognised industry standard language (e.g. Java, .NET core) – Essential
• Experience building web applications using a modern framework such as React (Typescript) – Desirable
• Experience with ORM tools e.g. Hibernate or Entity Framework – Desirable
• Familiarity and usage of git source control within the team – Essential
• Database skills with a sound understanding of, and experience using SQLServer – Essential
• Working in an Agile environment – Desirable

Personal Characteristics:

You will be a self-motivated individual who knows it takes a team to build great software, not an individual. You relish upskilling and learning new technologies to solve different problems.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Work for a market leading, established product company.
• Nice modern offices with great facilities.
• Health Insurance.
• 24 days holidays plus national holidays.
• Life Insurance.

Crane Authentication is part of Crane NXT

Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. Crane NXT has approximately 5,000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com.

We value diversity at our company. Everyone who applies with the qualifications will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, colour, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We receive a high number of applications, so apologies if we are unable to provide specific feedback. If we feel you are a fit for the role, we’ll be in contact.