Developer, Backend Developer, Software Development

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market‑leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.

For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part‑time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award‑winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity:

We are recruiting for a Developer within Labs, the community within Ashurst Perkins Coie's Advance Digital division responsible for the firm's experimentation environment, designing, developing and managing digital platforms, products and solutions. The role involves working in cross‑functional agile teams to design, build and support client‑facing and internal digital solutions, with a mix of support and development work.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Designing, developing and implementing custom applications using Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI, and agents with Copilot Studio.
• Producing detailed solution designs and architecture for Power Platform applications, and developing solutions that integrate with SharePoint, Dataverse, SQL Server and third‑party services.
• Creating and configuring custom connectors and working with REST APIs.
• Optimising code and solutions to ensure they are scalable, maintainable and performant, and applying software engineering best practices including testing, documentation and code reviews.
• Working closely with product managers, designers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, while supporting multiple initiatives in parallel and balancing delivery, quality and deadlines.

This is a full‑time, permanent role based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site

About you:

• The successful candidate will have:
• A background in Software Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or a relevant certification.
• 2+ years' experience building solutions on Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI) and/or Azure/AWS.
• Proficiency in at least one of .NET, Python, JavaScript or Type Script.
• Experience integrating solutions with Dataverse, SharePoint, SQL Server or REST APIs.
• Experience working in Agile teams.