Senior C# Software Engineer

What our developers do
We mostly develop in C# on Visual Studio or Rider, and provide all developers with an MSDN subscription and a ReSharper license. We have a no-blame peer review culture, via GitHub pull requests, with the aim of encouraging excellence, improvement and learning.

We work closely with product owners to define features and priorities, allowing us to get involved in understanding our customer needs and balancing them against development costs. We use Agile processes and have daily stand-ups and regular retrospectives to keep us honest and transparent. We take continuous improvement seriously: everyone’s opinion is valid and listened to. We use JIRA to host a Kanban board, and show key metrics and our TeamCity build status on a team radiator.

Find out more about our products here: https://www.ansys.com/products/materials

What you will work on
Ansys GRANTA MI is a C#-based application server which is built on top of a SQL Server database. The server functionality is accessed via a variety of Javascript-based clients, Windows applications and scripting interfaces.

Some of the things you might be doing:

Developing innovative new ways for customers to interact with their Materials data
Building robust back-end solutions to enable customers to manage their Materials databases
Optimising the application to satisfy the rapid growth of information stored in MI
Evolving the product suite to keep pace with the changing needs of our clients
Requirements
We value a range of skills. The ideal candidate will have some or all of the following:

Extensive development experience with C# and the .NET framework and good knowledge of .NET libraries and frameworks, including idiomatic usage
The ability to make effective use of debugging, diagnostic and profiling tools to build efficient software
The analytical skills to effectively resolve technical problems with simple solutions and be able to build consensus around those solutions
Effective written and verbal communication, presentation skills and attention to detail
Proficiency in refactoring, including techniques to develop and extend legacy code
Customer focus and a good awareness of software usability issues
Good knowledge of at least two secondary languages (e.g. css, html, t-sql, JavaScript etc.) and platforms
Expertise in the optimized use of SQL Server in an application environment