.NET Developer
Your success is our success
About Kynetix
We help exchanges, banks, brokers and asset managers streamline their back-office processes for greater efficiency, transparency and security. With our long and trusted history, we deliver business-critical software solutions to some of the world’s best-known financial institutions. As a leading innovator, we work with cutting-edge technology.
We believe in
Putting the user at the heart of everything we do
Streamlining complex processes
Challenging the status quo and finding better ways to do things
Aiming high and celebrating our own, and our clients’ successes
Which means we invest time to really understand our market, listen carefully to our customers, seek highly driven people to join our team and support them to innovate, hone their expertise, and reach their highest potential.
Our people
We believe your career is a journey and to ensure it continues to head in the right direction, we invest heavily in our people. You help us reach our goals and we’ll help you reach yours.
We offer a generous salary and a performance-related annual bonus, but we understand that successful people need more than just a decent salary, so we’ve done some research and have developed a commitment to our people that matches their commitment to us. We offer:
- A progressive and forward-thinking culture, where everyone’s voice is heard and where continuous feedback forms part of the normal working day
- Private healthcare for employees and their dependents, including reduced gym membership, discounts on fitness gadgets, cinema tickets and food.
- Flexible working arrangements – Our office is situated at The Leather Market, London. We’re a stone’s throw from London Bridge mainline and underground stations and a 5-minute walk from The Shard. We’ll need you to be in London for a minimum of 3 days per week. For the other two days each week, you can choose a suitable place to work.
- An annual fun weekend away with colleagues to a European destination fully funded by Kynetix. This year the team visited Porto, Portugal
- A personal training budget (equivalent to 10% of your annual salary) to help you on your career journey, whilst benefitting our clients along the way
- Working with and learning from our high-profile clients in some of the world’s most outstanding financial services
- Up to 30 days paid holiday, and additional days of un-paid holiday for when life throws up other exciting opportunities
- A sociable and lively team with regular team building and group activities, as well as opportunities to get together to relax and have some fun
- Wellbeing days for those occasions when you need to focus on yourself, your health or your family
- An annual fun weekend away with colleagues to a European destination
- Birthday lunch out with the CEO and colleagues who share your birthday month
- Generous pension matching
- Life assurance
The opportunity
We are currently seeking an experienced .NET Developer to join our software development team, leading on and delivering and maintaining our enterprise solutions to our financial services clients, which include a mix of our trusted software products and custom FMI solutions.
About you
- You’ll be a be a strong developer who enjoys working collaboratively with colleagues and clients
- You’ll have an outstanding record of full-stack development
- You’ll be ambitious with a strong drive to succeed
- You’ll be an innovative thinker and problem solver
- You’ll be a strong team player who is comfortable with working as part of a geographically dispersed team
Responsibilities
What will be expected from you and the skills and expertise we are looking for.
- Acting and coding as an integral part of our agile team
- Ensuring our coding and UX standards and guidelines are followed
- Contributing to product feature design and development effort
- Some 3rd Line technical support including regular on-call out of hours cover for our customers’ critical market infrastructure solutions
- Adherence to our company standards, processes and methods including creating technical documentation
- Helping to meet our infosec, performance, code quality and UX needs.
- Support for Business Development as required (e.g. providing estimates as appropriate)
- Contributing to our team to ensure continued technical excellence
Skills and expertise
- 5 years’ plus experience in full stack development, ideally with C# .NET, .NET Framework, JavaScript, React, SQL Server & Cloud Services (preferably Azure)
- Experience designing and implementing unit tests
- A good understanding of CI/CD – Azure DevOps would be a big plus
- Top-notch communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong technical knowledge evidenced by technical certifications (aligned to the technologies we use)
- Proven teamwork and collaboration skills, delivering to tight timescales with the agreed level of function and quality
- Excellent problem-solving skills and debugging ability
- Pragmatism around solutions, demonstrating a reasoned approach
- Thorough understanding of topics like branching strategy, CI/CD and release cycles, Git, DevOps, etc
- A track record of taking ownership of projects and new challenges
- An ability to work with deadlines and conflicting priorities
If you think we’re a match, we’d love to hear from you!
This role is open to anyone who has current and ongoing eligibility to work in the UK. Kynetix does not offer sponsorship.
Application process
To make sure we’re a good fit for each other, we run a multi-step application process.
- In the first instance please submit your CV to careers@kynetix.com
- We will invite suitable candidates to take an online test to help us gauge what level you are working at (80 minutes max)
- We may invite you to attend an attitude interview (Teams) with Paulo, Technical Team Leader, and Nikki, Head of People and Culture, to understand how you work as part of a team, your communication preferences and problem-solving skills (1hr)
- The final step will be a skills interview (Teams) with Paulo, Technical Team Leader, and one of our senior developers (approx. 2 hrs)