C# .Net Developer

C# Developer

📍 Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex or Leicestershire / Hybrid 💰 Competitive Salary + Benefits

Join Focus Group as a C# Developer

We're looking for a talented C# Developer to join our growing Development team at Focus Group.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the development and enhancement of our portfolio of internal and customer-facing applications. Working closely with a collaborative team of developers, you'll build new functionality, support existing systems, and contribute to projects that have a direct impact on the business and our customers.

If you're passionate about writing quality code, solving complex problems, and working across the full software development lifecycle, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing new functionality across Focus Group's portfolio of internal and customer-facing applications
• Supporting and enhancing existing systems and services
• Delivering change requests, bug fixes, and improvements to bespoke in-house applications
• Working on a variety of development projects across the business
• Participating in Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, planning sessions, and code reviews
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Taking part in a support rota to assist with development-related issues and investigations
• Deploying planned releases and hotfixes in line with team processes and release schedules
• Collaborating closely with colleagues to deliver solutions that meet business and customer requirements
• Contributing ideas and best practices to improve development standards and processes

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET
• Experience developing with WinForms and MVC
• Good understanding of SQL and database development
• Experience with HTML5, CSS and Bootstrap
• Experience developing and consuming APIs
• Familiarity with tools such as Postman
• Comfortable writing and maintaining unit tests
• Experience using Git and branching strategies
• Understanding of software design principles and development best practices
• Experience working throughout the software development lifecycle
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• A customer-focused approach with the ability to understand and deliver business requirements
• Passion for delivering high-quality software and maintaining development standards
• Proven experience in a similar software development role

Desirable Skills

• Experience working with billing systems within Telecommunications, MSP, or ICT environments
• Exposure to RabbitMQ or similar messaging technologies
• Previous experience within Telecommunications or Healthcare sectors
• Knowledge of, or interest in, cloud-based development
• Understanding of secure development principles and best practices

Job Benefits

• Holiday Allowance - 24 days + bank holidays + birthday leave. 
• Hybrid working options - performance depending. 
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave. 
• Paid volunteering day * regular charity events.
• Wider company benefits across health, financial wellbeing, Pension etc.

Internal job reference: Associate