3 months ago
Nottingham, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and refactor complex backend services and database systems in C#/.NET.
- Drive architectural decisions and support migration from serverless workloads to containerized services.
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and raise standards for software development, security, and testing.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to refine requirements and acceptance criteria around customer outcomes.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and manage logging, metrics, and monitoring.
- Evaluate design trade-offs, manage technical debt, and integrate security into system design.
- Partner with QA to maintain strong test coverage across the Agile testing pyramid.
Requirements
- Strong proven expertise designing and building backend services with C#/.NET.
- Experience with loosely coupled distributed architectures using event-based or message queue patterns.
- Strong SQL skills covering database design and query optimization.
- Experience operating services on a major cloud platform; Azure is used, with AWS or GCP experience transferable.
- Experience with unit and integration testing.
- Practical day-to-day experience using AI coding assistants and critically reviewing generated code.
- Comfort working with Git and CI/CD pipelines in agile environments.
- Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders and a track record of mentoring team members.
- Preferred: modern .NET experience, native Azure services, Bicep or Terraform, serverless and containerized infrastructure, Angular or other frontend component frameworks, high-throughput transactional messaging, and AI tools for testing, refactoring, or documentation.
Benefits
- £65,000–£75,000 salary.
- Company bonus scheme.
- Comprehensive healthcare cash plan.
- 27 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays, two wellbeing days, two community-giving days, and the employee's birthday off.
- Employer pension contribution of 5%.
- Death-in-service benefit of four times salary.
- Annual award recognition, social events, and training and professional development opportunities.
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements in Nottingham.
About Commify
Commify provides CPaaS business messaging—SMS, RCS, email, voice, chatbots and mobile payments—through web apps, APIs and integrations for organizations of all sizes. Headquartered in Nottingham and founded in 2001, it is privately held and backed by ECI Partners, operating via brands such as Esendex, TextAnywhere and Skebby across Europe and beyond. The company supports 46,000+ customers and delivers billions of messages each year.