IT Software Engineer

IT Software Engineer Location: Taunton Salary: £35k-38k Type: Full-time Reporting to: Head of ITDovetail and Slate are recruiting on behalf of a leading education provider based in Taunton. Role Purpose To lead agile development, ideally with commercial experience or a post-grad background in Software Engineering. Responsible for managing the full application lifecycle in Azure, working with technologies like .Net 8 (C#), Azure SQL, serverless functions, and MVC. Collaborate within the DevOps team on CI/CD, contribute to AI projects, and receive support for Microsoft Certifications, fostering career growth. Responsibilities Analyse user requirements, design, research, write, test, and document software solutions to professional standards. Develop middleware solutions (console applications, azure functions) to integrate different systems utilised by the organisation. Participate in collaborative development practices within the team to produce robust, maintainable, and resilient solutions. Fault find and debug existing / legacy software. Implement appropriate security processes/protections against common and contemporary vulnerabilities in source code and artefacts. Liaise with and provide advice, support, training, and guidance to users. Clearly and regularly communicate with development and technical support colleagues Maintain and develop new automated processes where possible to create efficiencies Assist in the designing and deploying web-based datasets, dashboards, and interactive reports Requirements Relevant experience in a similar setting Knowledge of the Microsoft .NET development stack Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery Knowledge and experience of Microsoft ASP.NET MVC web development Experience of troubleshooting Able to work independently, be responsible and able to use own initiative If this job is of interest, please apply to this advert with your CV. Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited ((phone number removed)) acts as an Employment Agency