Lead Developer - .NET | C# | Azure (eCommerce Tech)

While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business. 

About the team

Our eCommerce websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to 70 international markets, offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types. 

About the role

You'll be helping develop our cloud platform and assisting with the transformation of the current monolithic system to one based upon a micro-service Architecture.

You'll work on various exciting and high profile projects, to ensure our systems/applications support the portfolio of products we have now and into the future. Making sure as Next expands or adopts new initiatives, our systems evolve and grow to support it every step of the way.

Working with us would mean exposure to new technologies and ways of working, getting involved in forcing through change and ultimately providing our customers with a better service. 

You will help provide the analysis and development skills we need to create and enhance our systems and applications, as well as offering out-of-hours call out on a rota basis. You’ll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes, improve our quality and working practices, actively enabling the team to become as efficient and effective as it can be.

About you

Essential Criteria

• Able to speak, read and write English at a level that enables you to complete your role, for example, to understand instructions and communicate effectively with stakeholders and/or other team members
• Experienced in effectively working in a collaborative manner in a large scale, fast paced environment within a multifunctional technical team
• This is a hands-on development role where your time will be split equally in cutting code, using your subject matter expertise in the technology to deliver solutions at a fast pace to a high standard, as well as leading the team in their tasks and future task planning and design.
• An In depth knowledge of the following
  • Azure Web Services, with additional focus on Azure Data Functions and Azure Build Pipelines
  • Databases, with focus on Cosmos and SQL Server
  • SQL Stored Procedure and Script implementations
  • C# / .NET8+ 
  • Microsoft Azure Devops
  •  REST APIs and GraphQL
  • Micro service architecture
  • TDD
  • Agile
  • System design/architecture

Desirable Criteria

• Kubernetes
• Dynatrace Monitoring
• IAC (Terraform)