Software Developer (Xamarin Specialism)

Title:

Software Developer

Job Purpose:

Contributing to the development and continuous modernization of our core logistics operations management system, Marken Maestro, with particular focus and experience with implementing iOS and Android mobile apps using Xamarin.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with colleagues (including vendor teams) on improving skills and practices.
• Understand the importance of code refactoring (and when and how to apply it) to maintain system quality.
• Be committed to continuous improvement, refactoring, TDD and pair programming to achieve technical excellence and understand how this supports long-term customer value.
• Understand how to work in agile teams, with incremental and iterative development as key to deal with uncertainty and maintain flow.
• Limited travel for regular team meet-ups
• Work directly with end-users, business analysts and quality assurance, playing an active role in planning and user story development.
• Develop user stories to meet user needs.
• Help your team design and build new mobile app functionality for iOS and Android using Xamarin
• Contribute to planning meetings, working with BA and QA as necessary to question, refine and size user stories to enable them for development.

Qualifications and skills:

• Agile mindset & XP development practices: Refactoring, Pair programming, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Evolutionary System Architecture
• Experience and comfort with use of LINQ.
• Flexible attitude and able to embrace rapid change.
• 5+ years’ experience in C#.NET (Framework 4.x or Core/Standard).
• An innovator, looking and promoting your ideas for ways to improve both technology and process.
• A team player with high standards, including collaboration with vendor teams.
• 5+ years’ experience in related industry – Logistics would be ideal but platform-heavy businesses such as Retail/Banking/Insurance are also relevant.
• Strong use of git.
• Good communicator able to work well with users and management in one’s business.
• Work well in a self-managing team, using agreement to help everyone to perform well together.
• Exposure to designing and building software systems using object-oriented and event-driven approaches in a domain-driven design paradigm.
• Experience of using Xamarin to build and deploy mobile applications, ideally using forms
• Ability to remain calm and focused and prioritize competing demands.

Strongly Advantageous:

• Fluent NHibernate would be best, but Entity Framework would also apply.
• Experience in using Azure Microsoft Cloud offering.
• Blazor WebAssembly
• Experience in using FRP (Functional Reactive Programming), especially use of Rx
• BDD (in particular using Specflow)
• Mobile app testing experience
  • In particular, cross-device using e.g. Microsoft Appcenter
• In particular, cross-device using e.g. Microsoft Appcenter
• MassTransit
• Experience in continuously modernizing a system while maintaining true 24/7/365 system availability (Clinical Trials do not stop for weekends or even holiday seasons!)
• Experience in the use of ORM
  • Fluent NHibernate would be best, but Entity Framework would also apply.
• In particular, via Microsoft Intune
• Deployment and distribution of mobile apps using MDM
  • In particular, via Microsoft Intune

• Javascript & JQuery
• Experience of using Telerik UI components
• Experience of building mobile apps using or converting Xamarin forms to MAUI
• SQL Server (in particular 2016 and later)
• RabbitMQ

Marken is a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS and is a critical part of UPS Healthcare. Marken offers a state-of-the-art GMP-compliant depot network and logistic hubs for clinical drug product storage and distribution worldwide, and supports cell and gene therapy logistics services from clinical to commercial, while maintaining the leading position for Direct-to-Patient and Home Healthcare services, biological sample shipments and biological kit production.

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