Graduate Software Engineer

Description

At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work.

Klipboard offers industry-specific, cloud-based software across wholesale distribution, automotive, retail, rental, manufacturing, transport management, and field service management.

We are experiencing significant growth in markets across North America, Europe, and Africa, and indeed beyond. Some great opportunities are being created as a result of this for the right candidates, with the right aptitude for innovating some great products for our valued customers.

You will perform the role of a key member of a team of Software Developers / Engineers and Quality Assurance Test Engineers who work closely with Solution Designers in transforming requirements into deliverable solutions. Your primary focus within the team will be designing and engineering suitable, scalable, and maintainable software solutions which meet the demands of our customers and internal stakeholders.

Teams are responsible for decomposing and refining requirements, identifying acceptance criteria, designing solutions, building them, and testing them. They also spread knowledge of their solutions to other stakeholders across the business in the form of demonstrations and documentation.

You would contribute positively to all of these activities.

You will work with senior members of the team to ensure your solutions conform to Klipboard design standards and technical solution stack.

The role reports to the Delivery Manager of the relevant R&D team. We operate a hybrid working policy on completion of probation.

The role involves working in distributed teams based in several different countries. Your communication skills will be a key contributor to your close collaboration with team mates based in multiple locations.

This graduate role will fall into the Klipboard University Foundations Development Programme - enabling opportunity and growth within the business.

As a graduate software developer, you will...

• Assist in - and sometimes lead - the refinement and decomposition of high-level requirements (epics).
• Contribute positively to team planning activities for releases and sprints.
• Collaborate with team members to estimate backlog work.
• Ensure excellent solution designs with full consideration for quality and performance.
• Develop solutions for functionality and non-functional requirements (stories).
• Provide timely fixes to defective code.
• Provide unit tests for developed code.
• Assist in code reviews for other developers.
• Contribute positively to team retrospectives and embrace continual improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrate your completed work during Sprint Reviews.
• Keep abreast of changes within the areas of the system that your team is responsible for and the wider ERP One product.
• Build solutions that are technically sound, meet acceptance criteria, and achieve their business objectives.
• Contribute to the team building a comprehensive suite of UI automation for the areas your team is responsible for.
• Evolve strong stakeholder relationships globally.
• Work well within the team.

• Preferred, 2:1 Upper second-degree Bachelors in a relevant discipline. 2:2 Lower second will also be considered if evidenced project.
• Demonstrates suitable technical and design abilities.
• Experience of agile approaches to engineering solutions would be an advantage.
• Experience in the following, or similar, would be an advantage:
  • A good understanding of VB, or the React framework. REST-API design
  • .NET 4.5.2+, ASP.NET, C#, or similar
  • React/JavaScript/Type Script/Xamarin/PHP,
  • Restful Service Design, WebAPI

• A true team worker with a constant focus on the goals and objectives of the team.
• Good problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Able to communicate both verbally and in writing, articulating clearly and concisely complex technical issues.
• Have a desire for continual improvement.
• Develop solutions that are technically viable,…