Senior Developer

Job ID:43292
Location:UK : Home Based  
Position Category:Information Technology
Position Type:Employee Fixed Term

Who are LRQA? 

LRQA stands for dedication to clients, market firsts, and deep expertise in risk management. We've grown to become the leading global assurance provider, bringing together outstanding expertise in certification, customised assurance, ESG, cybersecurity, inspection and training. While we're proud of our heritage, it's who we are today that really matters, because that's what shapes who we and our clients can become tomorrow. By staying true to our shared values and combining decades of collective experience, we support our clients in building a safer and more sustainable future. 

We help our clients negotiate a rapidly changing world by working with them to manage and mitigate the risks they face. 

We specialise in management systems compliance and expert advice across a broad spectrum of standards, schemes and business improvement services, including customised training and assurance. In Inspection Services, we certify safety critical industrial equipment according to recognised codes, standards and regulations. We also partner with companies to provide tailored high-quality inspection services throughout their manufacturing supply chains, making sure equipment is built safely and to their requirements. 

Our award-winning Cyber Security Business Nettitude helps clients manage their risks against a backdrop of new threats emerging every day. We focus on the threat in the cyber landscape and provide tailored solutions so that our clients can manage their risks effectively. Our independence means we provide reliable, impartial and informed advice. All of this helps us stand by the purpose that drives us every single day: shaping a better future together. LRQA currently operates across 50 countries, has more than 2,500 colleagues, generates £315m in revenue, and supports more than 60,000 clients across a diverse range of sectors and markets. 

The next chapter for LRQA 

The future is exciting and rapidly changing. New challenges and opportunities are arising all the time. We're adapting to these challenges by expanding our portfolio of services and aiming to become the leading digitally enabled assurance provider. In December 2021, Goldman Sachs Asset Management acquired the LRQA business from Lloyd's Register Group. Becoming an independent business accelerated our ability to realise our ambitious growth plans. 

With solid expertise and heritage in our sector, coupled with well-timed accelerated investment and a leadership team that is fully committed to delivering our vision, LRQA's next chapter is set to be an exciting, transformational period of growth. We're well placed to build on everything we've done and further our ambitions for the future. At such an exciting time this is a great opportunity to be part of our next chapter. 

Role purpose 

The Senior Developer is a permanent member of the LRQA engineering team, focused on scaling the global client portal product. The platform foundation is in place, and this role will help lead the next phase of growth in capability, performance, and market readiness. 

This role is responsible for designing and delivering robust backend solutions in .NET 10, helping move data access away from legacy databases/endpoints toward modern REST APIs, and owning technical outcomes that directly improve client experience. 

Key responsibilities 

• Drive delivery of new portal capabilities that improve client value and product adoption. 
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality .NET 10 backend services and APIs. 
• Lead migration of data access from legacy application/database endpoints to modern REST-based services. 
• Take strong ownership of architecture and implementation decisions for the next chapter of the portal. 
• Ensure high code quality through clear standards, code reviews, and maintainable engineering practices. 
• Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions. 
• Apply secure and resilient engineering practices across development and delivery (DevSecOps mindset). 
• Monitor emerging technology trends, including AI opportunities and risks, and pragmatically apply them to improve engineering outcomes. 
• Act as a senior technical point of contact for the product area. 
• Mentor and support teammates within a small Scrum team environment. 

Key health and safety responsibilities 

• Eliminate or minimise employee exposure to risks by reviewing, regularly, the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessment and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all LRQA activities. 
• Manage your own and your team's compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems and legal requirements, ensuring employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely. 
• Monitor and review health and safety performance, observe safety behaviours in the workplace, taking appropriate corrective and preventive action as necessary and suggesting and implementing improvement activities. 

Key Stakeholders

• Lead Back End Engineer
• Product Owners
• Engineering Team
• Architecture
• QA
• DevOps/Platform
• Head of Development
• Security
• Business Stakeholders including product owners

Technical / Professional Qualifications / Requirements 

Technical 

• Minimum 6 years of commercial software engineering experience. 
• Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET (including .NET 10) in production environments. 
• Strong experience building ASP.NET Core APIs. 
• Good Azure platform experience for application hosting, integrations, and operational delivery. 
• Strong SQL capability (PostgreSQL and/or SQL Server), including performance-minded data access patterns. 
• Practical experience with Redis caching strategies. 
• Experience implementing robust validation patterns (including FluentValidation). 
• Strong understanding of secure API development and modern authentication/authorisation approaches (including Auth0 or equivalent identity platforms). 
• Experience working with CI/CD and delivery pipelines (including Azure DevOps). 
• Experience applying AI in day-to-day engineering practice to improve quality, productivity, and delivery outcomes. 

Desirable

• OpenTelemetry implementation experience. 
• Vertical Slice Architecture experience. 
• Event-driven architecture experience. 
• Experience owning and evolving a product over time in a fast-moving environment. 

Professional 

• Self-starter with strong ownership mindset and a bias for action. 
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Demonstrable code quality focus and commitment to engineering excellence. 
• Comfortable working in a small Agile/Scrum team and contributing across the full delivery lifecycle. 
• Motivated by delivering great client outcomes through both technology and execution quality. 
• Ability to identify and manage technical risk and opportunity as the product scales. 

Working practices 

• Agile / Scrum
• Code reviews
• DevSecOps mindset

Eligibility 

Must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. 

Hiring process 

• Initial screening
• Technical interview
• Take-home coding exercise
• Final panel interview, including coding exercise discussion

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Pre-Employment Checks 

If you are successful in securing a role with us, we will carry out preemployment checks in accordance with what is permitted under local law. 

These checks may include, where legally allowed: right to work, identification, verification of employment history, education, and criminal record checks. 

We will engage our thirdparty background screening provider, Cfirst to conduct these checks on our behalf. Cfirst performs all processing in full compliance with applicable data protection laws and adheres to strict legal, regulatory, and ethical obligations in handling personal data. 

Any personal information collected for the purpose of these checks will be used solely for evaluating your suitability for employment and will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil these purposes and meet legal requirements. 

Your data will be stored securely and managed in accordance with all relevant privacy legislation. 

If you have any questions or concerns about the preemployment checks please contact us at Onboarding@lrqa.com  

If you have any questions or concerns on how your data will be handled, please contact us as dataprotection@lrqa.com 

Diversity and Inclusion at LRQA:

We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other. We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business.

Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!

LRQA is a leading global assurance provider.  The integrity and expertise we bring to our partnership with clients support their journey to a safer, more secure and more sustainable future. (Group entities).

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