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Allocate and R&D Summary:

Allocate Software has been designing innovative products to optimise complex organisations since 1991. We have taken expertise from a number of industries and applied this to the specific issues and complexity of healthcare. Today we focus on delivering software tools to help healthcare institutions manage their staff safely and efficiently so that they can deliver exceptional care to all their patients. We have customers in 11 countries, with greater than 1 million people deployed using our software in over 800 organisations. Our R&D function is a global function comprising in excess of 200 people with development centres across the United Kingdom, Macedonia, Sweden and Australia. R&D globally represents approx. one third of Allocate’s total headcount and has seen significant investment in recent years. Skopje is one of our primary development centres and a key pillar in our current and future strategy for engineering excellence. It currently houses in excess of 100 R&D staff members, with continued growth expected in the future.  

Role Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer is a ‘hands-on’ member of a multi-disciplinary Agile Squad responsible for a specific area of the Allocate Human Capital Management stack. This key role is accountable for delivering high quality software design and development as part of a broader team with specific focus on engineering excellence, timely delivery and high levels of quality.  

As part of a Scrum Squad, Senior Software Engineers are accountable for:
Delivery:

• Reviewing, refining, estimating, and prioritising functional changes in close collaboration with the Scrum Squad leading to high quality committed deliverables.
• Producing clean and efficient code adhering to relevant patterns and standards.
• Making informed decisions and taking ownership of project outcomes.
• Engaging in design and review processes as both an author and reviewer.
• Performing verification and validation to ensure product backlog items are complete before handover to colleagues.
• Reviewing and debugging code associated with product backlog items.
• Troubleshoot customer production issues.
• Accommodating non-functional outcomes incorporating scale, security, deployment, and operability considerations.
• Ensuring relevant documentation is produced and accessible.
• Ensuring, in collaboration with Scrum Squad, that ‘Definition of Done’ is achieved for all items.

Teamwork & Collaboration:

• Actively engaging in all quarterly release planning and preparation activities.
• Actively engaging in all Scrum Ceremonies.
• Effectively communicating within the Scrum Squad and beyond into other teams that could be impacted by development decisions and activities.
• Providing coaching and mentoring to other Scrum Squad members.
• Providing relevant technical leadership within Scrum Squad.

Technology:

• Actively engage in current industry methodologies, techniques, and emerging technologies.
• Recommend technical hygiene activities including technical debt resolution and supportability improvements.

Core Competencies:

• Collaboration – Actively collaborate within own team and beyond if situation required.
• Problem Solving and Decision Making – Gathers, verifies, and assesses all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of situations. Considers a range of possible options, evaluating evidence and seeking advice where appropriate and ultimately making well considered, clear, timely and justifiable decisions (or recommendations).
• Communication – SSE Effective communication skills suitable for liaising with colleagues within the Scrum Team and beyond to broader project team, both on a one to one and one to many basis.  Demonstrate effective communication, both orally and in writing, with colleagues including producing/reviewing technical documentation, preparing, organising, and delivering presentations using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Planning and Organising – Effective at determining a course of action by breaking it down into smaller steps and by planning and resourcing each of these, making allowance for potential problems. 
• Building Relationships – Able to develop effective relationships with Allocate colleagues and customers. Able to respond appropriately to feedback.
• Influencing skills – Ability to influence both within the scrum squad and wider project team.
• Understanding Allocate – Aware of Allocate strategies, policies, and procedures and how the organisation operates.
• Influencing and Impact – Act in a professional manner and exhibit the required behaviour that should provide an example to other employees. Identify goals and objectives and motivating and supporting others towards their achievement.
• Innovation, Flexibility and Adaptability – Undertake tasks with a positive attitude and respond well to management and customer requests. Must be prepared to meet business goals and respond well to change.
• Leading Change - Positive about change, adapting rapidly to changing circumstances and encouraging flexibility in others. Supportive in implementing key strategic changes within R&D whilst taking an innovative approach to solving problems and considers alternatives.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
Candidates should ideally have:

• Experience as a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer for at least four years. 
• Degree in Computer Science or related field. 
• Experience in collaborating within a multi-disciplinary Agile Squad.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of working with the Microsoft and AWS technologies.
• Experience with C# and JavaScript is a must.
• Knowledge of .NET, .NET Core, React.js, Angular.js, SQL Server would be considered a plus.