Software Developer

Hours:             8.30am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week)

Salary:            Negotiable (dependent on experience) with bonus opportunity

Location:        Hybrid – A blend of home working and office based, 60/40 split (Bridgehead, Hessle)

Reports to:     Lead Developer

Role Overview

Parallel is a fast-paced scale up with the backing of parent company Sewell Group. The business supports public sector clients across the UK to make decisions about their services, estates and budgets through the delivery of market leading web applications and data visualisation tools, including SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation).

To support growing client demands and an expanding product range, Parallel is looking to grow its developer team and take the business to the next level.

The Software Developer will work alongside the Lead Developer and the wider development team to deliver a series of software and data projects, to help modernise existing technology platforms and develop new products for new markets.

We are seeking a full stack Software Developer to play an integral part in the technical delivery of the company’s products. The successful candidate will have relevant commercial development experience, have great attention to detail and be a team player. 

This is the perfect opportunity to work in a growing business and highly motivated team, where the exposure to multiple technologies, unique products and concurrent projects provides a continuous learning and personal development opportunity.

If you are a positive, well organised, people person, looking for an opportunity to make your mark on national products, with the backing of a nationally recognised top employer, we’d love to hear from you.

Wider Business Background

Parallel is a part of Sewell Group, a multi-disciplined set of companies operating across the North of England. Alongside its retail division, Sewell operates a collective of built environment businesses made up of Sewell Investments, Sewell Construction, Sewell Advisory, Sewell Facilities Management, Illingworth and Gregory, and Parallel.

At the heart of the business’ vision and strategy is delivering value for the communities it serves and promoting opportunities.

Sewell prides itself on its commitment to support, train, develop and reward employees. In return, they ask that their employees work hard, live the company behaviours and have some fun along the way. Culture is a massive part of the day-to-day life at Sewell and its people follow core principles of being positive, professional, customer focused, team players and always doing the right thing.

In 2021 the Group was recognised as one of only 18 businesses across the country in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity – the most prestigious accolade for UK businesses. 

The Group has also been continuously recognised as a World Class ‘Best Companies to Work For’ and feature in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies list.

To learn more about Sewell Group, Sewell Advisory and Parallel, please follow the link below:

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As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential:

• Professional experience in full stack coding
• Significant experience of working with and developing on databases and RDBMS solutions (MS SQL preferred)
• Significant experience developing using .NET
• Proficient in project management and hold excellent organisation skills, across multiple workstreams often at pace
• A team player and strong communicator, with clients and colleagues
• Possess a positive approach to problem solving, with a process driven method to approach design solutions and a keen eye for user experience
• Proficient in the use of HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Good decision-making skills
• Passion for technology, ongoing learning and client satisfaction
• Awareness of the importance of security, data protection and confidentiality
• Have good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy

Desirable:

• Experienced in building SPAs, ideally using Blazor
• Experience of developing Power Platform/Power Apps/Power BI solutions
• Experience in data manipulation and analysis
• Experience in developing and utilising APIs
• Experience of geo-mapping formats, approaches or tools
• Experience of other databases (ideally PostgreSQL or Redis) and Object-Relational Mapping frameworks (ideally Entity Framework or Eloquent)
• Experience of Cloud services/technologies (ideally MS Azure)
• Knowledge of XML and JSON for defining content structures
• Experience of developing in Laravel/PHP

All candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their technical ability as part of our selection process.

Parallel and the Sewell Group are equal opportunities employers, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services. As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

• Competitive Salary, Dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

Click here to take a look at our flexible reward and benefits offer!