Senior Developer

Job Title: Senior Developer – Wine Hub

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Central London

Working Model: Hybrid

Reports To: Head of Engineering

Company Overview:

Wine Owners is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS scale-up that offers innovative software solutions designed for and by the wine industry. 

One of our products is Wine Hub, a SaaS business management platform for wine retail and distribution businesses, addressing inventory management, purchasing and logistics, multiple sales channels and omnichannel needs. 

Wine Hub has become the industry's leading wine business management platform since its release in the summer of 2020, with 90 business customers and strong annual recurring income growth. The majority of clients are in the UK, although it is deployed all over the world (USA, France, Switzerland, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia).

The team is perceived by the as authoritative, capable, thoughtful and responsive to market needs.

Introduction:

Wine Owners are seeking a motivated and high-performing Senior Developer to join our capable team, and help to deliver on an ambitious multi-threaded roadmap for Wine Hub. As we seek to build out an industry ecosystem, you'll be adapting Wine Hub to optimise the platform for more specific market segments, jurisdictions and progressive ways to grow value for our clients and the industry.

You'll be involved in the entire lifecycle of product delivery, with particular focus on implementing high-impact code, and contributing in ways that will make a real difference to our addressable parts of a mammoth £275bn global market, from within a small, rapidly expanding company. 

As a Full Stack developer working primarily on Wine Hub, you will have a solid understanding of full-stack development technologies and a passion for building and maintaining complex web applications using SQL, C#, Javascript and REST APIs.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will have extremely strong business analysis skills, and have a business/market focus that will determine the strong applicability of code to as broad a spread of business requirements as possible.

Although you will primarily be working on Wine Hub moving forwards, you will also be needed to assist in other areas in the business where appropriate, namely Wine Keep (specific warehouse management), and other ad-hoc projects..

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain complex web applications using full-stack development technologies.
• Collaborate with other developers to build and maintain REST APIs.
• Build and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance SQL stored procedures.
• Optimise database performance through query optimisation, indexing, and other techniques.
• Design and implement database schemas and data models to support software solutions.
• Ensure the security, availability, and reliability of data stored in databases.
• Monitor and troubleshoot database performance issues.
• Mentor co-worker developers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of software solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving the quality of code and software design.
• Document and maintain software systems and codebase to ensure knowledge sharing and ease of future maintenance.
• Keep up-to-date with emerging trends in full-stack development and database technologies.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years commercial software development experience.
• A keen interest in database technologies, primarily Microsoft SQL Server.
• Very good knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures and query optimisation.
• Knowledge of C#.
• Knowledge of Javascript.
• Understanding of version control tools such as SVN or Git.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and development practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and debug code.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions.
• An aptitude for learning complex concepts at pace.
• Predisposed to working within small, highly accountable teams.

Helpful to have:

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of REST APIs and microservices architecture.
• Experience working on SaaS solutions.
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks.
• Business Analyst skills.
• Knowledge of wine and wine operations.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
• A collaborative and innovative team environment where your ideas matter.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
• A warehouse-style office in Farringdon, London.
• Regular socials in a fantastic team, often with several bottles of fine wine!
• Monthly tastings and competitions.
• 22 days of annual leave excluding bank holidays.
• Employee private medical insurance.

Interested? Excited? Ambitious? Talented? We'd love to hear from you!

We value diversity and encourage all interested candidates to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every single requirement, but are confident that this role is for you. We are particularly interested in hearing from individuals who are underrepresented in the tech industry, including women and those from minority ethnic backgrounds. We’re looking for individuals with unique skill sets, perspectives, and experiences who can contribute meaningfully to our team.

Much as we'd love to hear from the whole world (if only we had the time) we must also advise that we cannot action interest from the following:

Absolutely no agencies.

No applicants who aren't domiciled in the UK.

No applicants who required business sponsorship.

No applicants seeking a contracting relationship.