Software Developer - 9 Month FTC in Andover

Andover

Development / Software Engineering

£65,000 - £70,000

10 Apr 2025

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About The Role

We’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing. Added to that we’re the first health insurer in the UK to be awarded B-Corp status in recognition of our significant achievements in sustainability, in addition to our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.
As a Software Developer you’ll work with other Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and business users to develop software solutions based on business need across Simplyhealth. You’ll be an advocate for agile development frameworks and will have the drive to learn new technologies and have the quality of solutions at the forefront of your mind.

Key responsibilities
• Attending and contributing to daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint demos and sprint retrospectives.
• Providing accurate estimates for user stories and backlog items.
• Translating user stories and backlog items into logical units of work.
• Evaluating technical feasibility.
• Translating requirements and acceptance criteria into technical solutions.
• Producing well structured, efficient, and reliable code within the agreed timescales, using the technologies selected for the solution.
• Ensuring that code is well tested using TDD where appropriate.
• Providing prompt fixes to defects identified, ensuring that these fixes are well tested before they are released.
• Managing code using the code management tool of choice, ensuring that changes are checked out/in in a timely manner and maintaining an awareness of any potential impact on other Developers in the team.
• Contributing to the overall quality of code delivered by the Development Team by performing code reviews for other Developers.
• Maintaining an interest in the latest development tools and technologies and being prepared to use these in a fast-paced environment.
• Applying development best practices and adhering to IT policies and standards.
• Actively participating in the Development community, sharing skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice.
• Communicating complex ideas and concepts simply and elegantly and with impact to create understanding.

About You

To be considered you must have:

• Knowledge of a frontend and a backend language
• Knowledge of a Relational databases
• Knowledge of object-oriented development techniques and theories
• Knowledge of successfully applying modern software architectural principles and design patterns.
• Knowledge of managing code using a source code management tool such Git.
• Understanding and some exposure of working with project collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Continuous Delivery tools such as GitHub Actions, Octopus or Team City
• Knowledge of Microsoft back end development using languages like C#, Golang, node.js or Java
• Knowledge of React JS, Next JS and React Native, NUnit, JUnit or equivalent testing framework, Typescript, GitHub, GitHub Actions and continuous Delivery tools such as Octopus or Team City

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:
• Group bonus scheme
• Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays) - with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days
• Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers and more)
• Your own health plan
• Access to a wellbeing hub
• Shopping discounts
• Recognition awards
• Give as you earn
• 3 volunteering days

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more. You can expect to be in our head office in Andover a minimum of once a week.

Your Recruitment Journey

At Simplyhealth we’re focused on providing an application, assessment and onboarding journey that is fair, consistent, diverse and inclusive for all, allowing us to hire top talent based on the skills and behaviours pivotal to your and our success.

We use a number of techniques to help us select successful candidates, these form part of each review and will vary according to the role. We provide details in advance to help you prepare, these may include but are not limited to:

· Pre-set video interview
· Verbal and numerical aptitude test
· Competency style interview
· Role Play
· Presentation
· Working styles questionnaire

If successful, we’ll contact you to tell you the great news of your offer and welcome you to Simplyhealth, followed by details of your conditional offer of employment. The offer will be subject to our pre-employment checks, completed by our 3rd party partner Experian, which include a basic disclosure and barring service (DBS) and credit check.

Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team if you have any questions; [email protected].

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