Software Engineer

TerraQuest

Role: Software Engineer

Location: Birmingham in line with our Agile Working Policy. You will need to be able to work from our Birmingham office 2 days per week/office to be attended as often as business needs require.

Salary: Competitive

Who we are...

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd is an award-winning and market-leading specialist provider of planning land property and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation that is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team delivers bespoke flexible and efficient services through a process-orientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

Why work with us

We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer committed to supporting the well-being and development of all our people. With competitive salaries enhanced Family Friendly policies; a fabulous suite of benefits (including: Pension; Life Assurance; Employee Assistance Programme; option to buy additional annual leave in addition to 25 days plus Bank Holidays); true flexibility with our Agile Working approach and superb training and development opportunities we really care about our team!

What we need...

Due to continued growth we are looking to recruit Software Engineers to join our Solutions Team with a primary focus on web application development.

In this role youll work closely with senior engineers product owners and your Scrum team to build and maintain secure reliable APIs and services using C# . Youll be supported to develop your technical skills learn modern development practices and contribute meaningfully to the delivery of productionready software. Frontend experience is welcome but not required.

What you will be doing

• Developing and maintaining backend services and RESTful Web APIs using C# and Core following established standards and best practices.
• Working with Entity Framework and SQL Server to model data write queries and support routine database tasks.
• Writing clean maintainable code with unit tests and contributing to integration testing where appropriate.
• Collaborating within a Scrum team taking part in refinement planning standups reviews and retrospectives.
• Delivering assigned user stories and tasks asking for support where needed and working to the teams Definition of Done.
• Participating in code reviews using feedback as a way to learn and continuously improve.
• Gaining exposure to CI/CD pipelines Azure cloud services and identity/security concepts through guided tasks and pairing with senior engineers.
• Optionally contributing to frontend work using React and TypeScript if youre interested in expanding your skill set.

What you will be doing

• Developing and maintaining backend services and RESTful Web APIs using C# and Core following established standards and best practices.
• Working with Entity Framework and SQL Server to model data write queries and support routine database tasks.
• Writing clean maintainable code with unit tests and contributing to integration testing where appropriate.
• Collaborating within a Scrum team taking part in refinement planning standups reviews and retrospectives.
• Delivering assigned user stories and tasks asking for support where needed and working to the teams Definition of Done.
• Participating in code reviews using feedback as a way to learn and continuously improve.
• Gaining exposure to CI/CD pipelines Azure cloud services and identity/security concepts through guided tasks and pairing with senior engineers.
• Optionally contributing to frontend work using React and TypeScript if youre interested in expanding your skill set.

What we are looking for

Essential knowledge and skills

• C# fundamentals with a good understanding of building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Basic experience with Entity Framework and SQL Server including querying and schema changes.
• Understanding of software testing principles particularly unit testing.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development using pull requests and code reviews.
• Exposure to agile software development (Scrum or similar).
• A collaborative mindset clear communication skills and a strong desire to learn and grow as a developer.

Desirable knowledge and skills

• Exposure to Microsoft Azure such as App Service Functions Service Bus Event Grid or API Management.
• Awareness of CI/CD pipelines particularly using Azure DevOps.
• Basic understanding of identity and access management including OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect or Azure AD B2C.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases and messaging patterns.
• Awareness of architectural patterns such as CQRS or domaindriven design.
• Any frontend experience with React and TypeScript (optional not required).

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd operates in compliance with the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. We monitor the composition of our workforce in accordance with the Fair Employment (Monitoring) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and where applicable submit annual monitoring returns to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI). All monitoring information is held securely and processed under the legal basis of compliance with a statutory obligation in accordance with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. We do not rely on employee consent and ensure all personal data is treated with the utmost confidentiality and integrity.

TerraQuest aims to use this data to help identify and address any patterns of underrepresentation and to inform positive action measures where appropriate fostering a workplace culture that embraces diversity and fair participation.