Software Developer

Software Developer

• £45,000 – £50,000 (DOE)
• Telford (office based, hybrid considered after probation)
• 2-Year Fixed-Term Contract
• C# / VB / SQL Server
• [email protected]

Software Developer needed for a well-established company in Telford

You'll take ownership of a substantial, business-critical legacy estate built on C#, Visual Basic and SQL Server — spanning Windows apps, web apps, websites, APIs, stored procedures and CMSs — maintaining, supporting and incrementally improving these systems while helping build the knowledge needed for a planned migration to a modern Power Platform and Azure stack.

This is a role with genuine depth: minimal documentation, years of embedded business rules, and real problem-solving. If you're patient, methodical and energised by untangling complex systems, you'll have a visible impact right up to the modernisation programme.

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is a progressive organisation at the heart of its industry, with family values, a strong team spirit and a genuine commitment to personal development. You'll join a passionate, friendly and hardworking team in a technology-rich environment, working alongside experienced colleagues who are keen to share their institutional knowledge.

THE BENEFITS

- £45,000 – £50,000 depending on skill and experience

- 2-year fixed-term contract with a known-length commitment and fair compensation

- 35 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm (one-hour unpaid lunch)

- Office based in Telford, with hybrid working considered after successful completion of a 6-month probationary period

- Broad exposure to a complex, real-world legacy estate — invaluable experience for any developer

- Limited possibility of retention and training in the Power Platform environment

- Collaborative environment with experienced colleagues willing to share knowledge

THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER ROLE

- Maintain, debug and enhance existing VB, C# and SQL Server applications across a diverse legacy estate

- Investigate and resolve production issues, often with minimal documentation — systematic analysis skills are essential

- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand system purpose and capture institutional knowledge

- Participate in code reviews and daily stand-ups, contributing to improving team practices and standards

- Produce and maintain technical documentation to support continuity beyond the contract period

- Help build the knowledge and capability needed to migrate towards a modern Power Platform and Azure-based technology stack

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

- Solid commercial C# experience — able to read and extend existing codebases confidently

- Ability to work with legacy Visual Basic (VB) code, maintaining and bug-fixing production systems

- Competent SQL Server / T-SQL — query writing, stored procedures and performance troubleshooting

- Comfortable with version control workflows (Git/TFS) in a team environment

- Patience, methodical thinking and self-direction — comfortable taking ownership with limited hand-holding

- Strong communication skills — able to explain technical issues clearly to non-technical colleagues

Desirable: Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), Azure fundamentals, Flutter/Dart, and DevOps/CI-CD experience (Azure DevOps preferred).