Job Description

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Salary: Up to £65,000 + benefits

Location: Hybrid in Peterborough

Vargo is recruiting for an experienced Full Stack Developer to join a rapidly expanding fintech organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing development and enhancement of the company’s Web-to-SQL applications, delivering robust, scalable solutions for both internal teams and external customers.

Working across the full technology stack, you’ll be involved in maintaining and improving existing systems while contributing to the design and delivery of new functionality and platform enhancements. You’ll join a collaborative development team and help promote best practice across front-end, middle-tier and back-end development, while supporting and mentoring less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of development projects from inception through to successful delivery.
• Allocate and oversee work across junior developers, including support tickets, BAU activities and maintenance tasks.
• Provide technical support and guidance to team members when project challenges arise.
• Monitor project progress, report on milestones and ensure agreed deadlines are achieved.
• Ensure support requests are resolved within agreed service levels.
• Oversee the timely completion of BAU activities, including statements, bonuses and interest-related processes.
• Coordinate and deliver ongoing maintenance activities, including software updates, application enhancements and technical debt reduction.
• Coach and mentor colleagues to support their professional and technical development.
• Produce and maintain documentation for systems, applications and internal processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing systems and workflows, proposing practical solutions where appropriate.
• Analyse support trends and recurring issues, recommending improvements to reduce inefficiencies and improve system performance.
• Participate in an on-call support rota (one week in four) for escalated issues, with additional remuneration provided.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong commercial experience developing and maintaining web applications using ASP.NET and C#.
• In-depth knowledge of modern authentication and authorisation methodologies.
• Experience integrating with SQL databases, including query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Solid front-end development experience using Angular or a comparable JavaScript framework.
• Understanding of modern software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Good working knowledge of SQL and relational database technologies.
• Experience coordinating software deployments and releases.
• Proven ability to contribute to and improve development standards and coding practices.
• Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and processes.
• Experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent platforms.

Desirable

• Experience working with Azure DevOps, including configuration and administration.

Qualifications

• Professional .NET certifications would be advantageous.
• Degree-qualified or able to demonstrate equivalent commercial experience.

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