Ge Developer

About SOS

As part of the LEAP group our dedication to excellence and customer-focused approach has made us a trusted partner for legal professionals nationwide. Working alongside our team of passionate and driven individuals provides you with the opportunity to grow develop and make a meaningful impact in the legal sector.

At SOS our passion for advancing legal technology has made us a leading provider of legal software solutions. With decades of experience we deliver innovative reliable and user-friendly software that enhances efficiency and ensures compliance - ultimately helping law firms streamline their operations. Our Practice Management software is widely recognised across the profession and our customisable solutions empower firms to work in the way that best suits their needs.

We are looking for a skilled Progress Open Edge 4GL Developer to help maintain and enhance our legal financial and case management systems. Built over 25 years and now running on Open Edge 12.8 our products serve over 250 legal firms across the UK. This role involves both new development and ongoing support and suits someone with at least 3 years of relevant experience.

You will join a collaborative team of cross platform developers and QA specialists.

09 : 00 17 : 30 Monday to Friday Bath office.

Hybrid working pattern 3 days office and 2 days homeworking.

Head of Development.

• Maintaining and enhancing our existing products and services in user interfaces embedded business logic and API (Appserver / PAS) service code.
• Working with the team to ensure that deliverables are completed to specification and to agreed deadlines.
• Handling technical support issues arising from the high-volume daily use of our systems by our UK-wide user base of over 20000 users.
• Assisting with the creation and maintenance of internal test system infrastructures.
• Advising on best practices of a range of Progress Open Edge infrastructure components.
• Becoming fully conversant with our existing product features and working on enhancements to these features and extending their capabilities into new areas.

• Demonstrable experience of application development in a variety of Progress Open Edge development environments (App Builder Procedure Editor Open Edge Developer Studio) across a range of Open Edge versions (critically OE11 and OE12).
• Experience of working with various Progress Open Edge components and wider infrastructure (DBA functions Appserver / PAS configurations TDE database auditing after imaging replication ODBC-based reporting).
• Experience with building complex Progress 4GL user-interfaces including use of embedded Active X controls.
• Commercial experience of multi-user Progress Open Edge applications including an understanding of transaction scopes record lock management and designing / coding for high performance.
• Experience with Git-based code management systems (Git Hub Git Lab Bitbucket).
• Working fully to GDPR regulations and internal security protocols to ensure that our systems and our clients data are always kept secure.

• Knowledge of Atlassian applications for development productivity :
  Jira (issue management) Bitbucket (source code management) and Confluence (documentation).
• Conversant with Microsoft and other productivity and communication apps (Word Excel Outlook Teams Zoom Slack).
• Previous experience with financial systems.

• SOS pays 8% of your qualifying salary into your pension.
• Private health insurance including optical and dental.
• Life insurance cover.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Perk Box membership.
• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays).
• Free light lunch and snacks.

Closing Date :
Friday 31st October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible

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