• A market leader in the development and provision of Retail software environments, addressing single or multi-Retail operations, for specialist Distribution, Wholesale, Merchant, and Retail industry sectors, addressing single or multi-branch operations, as well as catering for organisations with ‘point-of-sale’ showrooms and warehouses, currently has a position available for a Principal Software Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects, prioritising and resolving conflicting demands as required.
• Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them. 
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated. 
• Monitor on-going progress and report on exceptions to project and team management.
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to. 
• This role will involve development of applications and delivering fixes for customers.
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales.
• Conduct unit testing on own code
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received.
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality.
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales.
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks.
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds.
• Mentor other members of the development team.
• Contribute to the product and wider group technical initiatives and ambitions. 

Key Requirements

• Extensive programming experience
• Requires a high level of understanding SQL database design.
• High level of C# programming skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Project Management skills and experience of having delivered software projects to specification, on time and of good quality.
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles
• Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies
• Good general management skills in a fast-paced technical operation
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes
• A good understanding of .NET, C#, Angular, JavaScript, REST API
• Knowledge of Blazor is desirable.