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Company
With a bold vision for organising the world’s building information to create safer, more efficient environments, Operance is a turnkey digital construction services and software developer providing innovative solutions for customers in the AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations) sector.
Following investment, rapid growth and a strong pipeline of work, we are a small, creative, innovative, agile and fast-growing business. With a remote-first philosophy, we have headquarters based at the Centre for Digital Innovation [C4DI], situated in Hull’s tech and social-driven Fruit Market district, but with satellite office space in London and across the UK, enabling us to recruit the country’s best talent.
Best Use of Tech in Property. 3rd Most Exciting Tech Company. 42 Under 42. Most Inspiring Business. Digital Business of the Year.
Role
You will be joining a close-knit, self-motivated, high-performance software development team. The role of the Software Developer is primarily to produce high-quality software solutions to tackle some of the construction industry’s leading challenges in digitising estates. You will be responsible for building and maintaining code with an emphasis on best practices for security and maintainability including the use of design patterns and clean code and architecture including SOLID principles.
In addition to writing code, you will be required to collaborate on the writing of functional requirements by suggesting technical feasibility and potential implementations and alternatives. The team operates as an agile Scrum team so all members are expected to participate in regular planning and retrospective meetings to maintain a healthy backlog.
“Anyone can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
Team
We are a growing team of software developers and work closely with product managers and stakeholders within the wider business. The team looks after all the software products in the Operance suite including the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) manual and Facilities Management (FM) apps.
The team is distributed globally with a talented core here in the Hull HQ office and with remote working, this trend is set to continue.
We value people of different backgrounds to bring a diversity of views, opinions and approaches so we can continuously improve our approach, processes, and tools as well as the software itself.
Responsibilities
- Building new features and Bug fixing including larger and more time-critical features/bugs
- Reviewing the work of colleagues
- Take part in planning and retrospective meetings
- Take an active role in personal development
- Assist with technical analysis
- Work closely with stakeholders to identify requirements
- Provide technical input at design meetings
- Maintain and improve code quality including architectural and style improvements
- Be part of a high-performance, collaborative team
Skills & Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in the industry in a related role
- Enthusiasm for the discipline
- Eager to learn with a track record of independent personal development
- Effective communicator (written and spoken English)
- Applied knowledge of:
- OOP design patterns
- Version control with Git
- Agile Scrum Development Methodology
- Code quality and the SOLID principles
- Databases + database design (SQL & NoSQL)
- Demonstrable coding ability via GitHub or a similar public repository
- Experience working as part of a development team
- Experience with Front-End web frameworks: Dart with Flutter preferred else JavaScript with React or similar will be considered
Cultural Fit
For us, behaviours and brand are two sides of the same coin. How we act internally affects the way we are perceived externally. Our brand therefore, is a reflection of who we are as a company and what we represent. Our culture turned inward, creates our product; our culture turned outward, creates our brand;
- Our people are smart, humble, hardworking and collaborative.
- Our products are customer centric, innovative, secure and easy-to-use.
- ♂️ Our services are professional, cooperative, informed and helpful.
- Our business is ambitious, creative, bold, forward and purposeful.
At Operance, our business, behaviours, and our vision are shaped by our people. Our brand didn’t appear from thin air. The bedrock of our brand is our shared behaviors and beliefs – everything our people are, our brand is too.
Our 5 values; curiosity, honesty, innovation, personality and solidarity, therefore, should come through in all we do. We consider them in our daily work, decisions and actions – with customers and each other alike.
What You Get Back
- Full-time salary of £35k – £40k per year depending upon experience.
- Progression, learning and development potential.
- Rest up with 28 days paid leave, plus the statutory bank holidays.
- Plan for the future with a company-contributed pension plan.
Perks
- Flexibility: work flexible hours to suit you.
- Pension: smart pension with 3% employer contribution fully managed and available online.
- Competitive Salary: we know it is not all about money but we value and appreciate what you do.
- Location remote–first: manage your work/life balance by working from home, your favourite cafe, hotel, campervan, one of our many UK satellite office spaces or at our C4DI Tech Campus headquarters in the vibrant Fruit Market – it’s up to you!
- Be part of something amazing: as part of a small, fast-growing funded venture you will help shape the future of!
**We politely ask that employment agencies/recruiters DO NOT apply and DO NOT contact us about this role**