"At KCS we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."
Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in the distributive trades, KCS has a wide range of clients including wholesalers, distributors, merchants, and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. KCS has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya, and North America.
Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably, and service competitively.
Autowork Online is a comprehensive web-based application that simplifies and manages every aspect of running a busy workshop or garage. It automates and organizes essential everyday tasks, from generating quotes and invoices to maintaining service records and managing the diary. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in this team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Deal with multiple concurrent projects, prioritizing and resolving conflicting demands as required.
Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
Monitor ongoing progress and report on exceptions to project and team management.
Ensure KCS programming standards, best practices, and industry guidelines are adhered to.
This role will involve the development of applications and delivering fixes for customers.
Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales.
Conduct unit testing on own code.
Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received.
Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality.
Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales.
Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks.
Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds.
Mentor other members of the development team.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
(Qualification, technical skills, commercial work experience, soft skills such as communication, presentation, personal attributes)
Extensive programming experience.
Requires a high level of understanding of SQL database design.
High level of VB.Net and C# programming skills.
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Project management skills and experience of having delivered software projects to specification, on time, and of good quality.
Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools, and processes for software development.
Knowledge of software project lifecycles.
Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies.
Good general management skills in a fast-paced technical operation.
Empathy with software QA and QC processes.
Knowledge of SignalR and MaterialUI desirable.
Company Info
Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is the market leader in developing and delivering fully integrated business management solutions for distributors, suppliers, resellers, wholesalers, and merchants. Our mission is simple: to design, implement, and support high performance systems that enable our customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably, and service competitively.
KCS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires us to adjust the recruiting process please do advise us when contacted.
If this role is of interest to you please apply online.
Development Team
Must work from the office within a multi-layered team.
Have full access to the development server and work with other team members on code merge.
Assist QA staff members on testing and documentation.
Assist with software releases.
Assist support members with customer queries.
Health and Safety
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 puts a legal obligation on KCS as an employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety, and welfare of its employees at work.
Employees also have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety and of others who could be affected by their actions. Understanding the safety policies and cooperating with the arrangements that are in place is therefore an essential part of your employment.
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