Developer C# | .NET | SQL
Job Summary
Store Technology - Developer - Selling and Banking
The Role:
Join our dynamic and fun-loving department of over 80 employees spread across 7
development teams (including 3 in Poznan). We specialise in designing developing
testing and maintaining cutting-edge software for our store systems using a wide
range of technologies such as touch screen tills Android devices C#.Net SQL COSMOS
RFID Azure Cloud Bluetooth-based solutions and more. As a team we work in an Agile
SDLC to deliver innovative and high-quality software with cool hardware that enhances
the store staff experience.
You will be joining one of our dev squads in the UK. We pride ourselves on being at the
forefront of developing new products services and applications to better serve our customers.
Youll work alongside some of the most talented and driven developers in the industry
who are committed to achieving excellence in all aspects of their work. We collaborate
with our stakeholders to develop our product suite for stores and support them
throughout the product life cycle.
What Youll Take On:
As a Store Technology Developer youll play a critical role in developing and
improving our systems. Youll write software to implement features and requirements fix bugs create documentation and provide support across applications used by over 28000 users in our store estate. Youll work with a wide range of technologies from Windows apps to Android apps and from devices such as PCs to tablet and handheld devices Azure Cloud as well as a wide range of device peripherals such as payment devices scanners and receipt printers.
Were in the process of migrating our platforms and products to the
Cloud using microservices and Azure technology to keep our business moving forward
so Azure knowledge would be advantageous as you can help shape the designs so the
system is supportable.
In this role youll have the opportunity to work on exciting and high-profile projects that
support our current and future products. Youll work within our fast-paced and dynamic
release train process following Agile principles and utilising DevOps techniques and
automation-first best practices. Youll be part of a team that never stands still always
looking for ways to evolve our technology applications and services to better serve our
Stakeholders.
At Next we encourage our employees to explore new technologies and ways of working
to enable change. We offer an environment that is never dull with the freedom and
support to express yourself and come up with new initiatives.
With an emphasis on quality the development part of the role will focus on investigating
and fixing issues and making functional changes in order to continually meet challenges
and deliver high-impact features which perform well and improve user experience.
It also involves liaising with retail/ technical teams in our business to understand how
things work or to collaborate with them to find a solution to problems. The aim is to help
the team maximise the business value delivered by looking for trends and highlighting
the highest value features/bugs for prioritisation and planning into current and future
sprints.
What Youll Bring:
To be considered for this role you should have experience or knowledge in the following
tools/ technologies:
Core C#
MVC (WPF)
Azure Cloud
Azure DevOps/ TFS
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Xamarin or Android development
Blazor ( nice to have )
Powershell (nice to have)
You should also be able to communicate effectively with business users store staff store
managers product owners developers testers and first and second line support teams.
You will need to be a skilled troubleshooter with exceptional analytical abilities a
passion for problem-solving and the ability to analyse complex technical issues.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possib ... View more