Software Consultant

Job Description Department: Development Location: Pune, India Description ParentPay Group is Europe's leading software product company and the UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries. Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations. ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development. Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies. Key Responsibilities Code Development: contribute actively to coding and development tasks, leading by example and demonstrating best practices. Address complex coding challenges and participate in solving technical issues. Adaptability and Innovation: stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Integrate innovative solutions and technologies into projects where applicable. Development Principles: guide and champion industry standard development principles and frameworks for achieving quality, speed and maintainability. This includes the practices, techniques and tools that support those principles, and an understanding of when things may or may not be applicable in a situation or context. Giving and Receiving Feedback: solicit and engage with feedback on a continuous basis. Having timely, actionable and meaningful conversations about performance for the purpose of shaping behaviours and fostering learning, with the goal of strengthening confidence and improving the effectiveness of self and others. Emotional Intelligence: recognizes, understands and manages their own emotions and recognizes, understands, shares and influences the emotions of others. Collaboration: works jointly with others to co-create and achieve a common goal. This includes learning, practising and experimenting with tools, techniques and frameworks that foster collaborative working environments. Ownership and Accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and tradeoffs, removing blockers, driving collective progress. Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others. Systems Thinking: Positively impact complex systems or domains by understanding the whole picture and the interdependencies of its component parts. Maintain strong expertise and knowledge of current and emerging technologies and products. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise - Communication skills (both written and verbal) demonstrated at all levels of the organisation - Software development skills (PHP, React, MVC, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) - Cloud computing, particularly Microsoft Azure, with experience of deploying and managing applications in the cloud - Architecture patterns and design of scalable and maintainable solutions - Secure by design best practises - RESTful API development - Testing framework knowledge (XUnit, Moq) and test driven development experience - Experience of source code control and release management (CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps) - Knowledge of API testing (Postman). - Database management, extensive query skills and ORM (Entity Framework) experience - Agile development methodologies: Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean.