Insight Vacations is part of one of the world's largest private travel organisations, owning a large number of leading award winning brand names in Motorcoach & River Touring, Independent Travel and Hospitality, including Contiki Holidays, Trafalgar Tours, Insight Vacations, Uniworld River Cruises, Creative Holidays and the Red Carnation Hotel Group. We operate in many countries across all major global regions.
This role is based in our London offices by Hyde Park Corner in Central London although some travel may be required. We are continually investing millions of dollars in developing cutting edge, industry leading solutions for our brands within the E-commerce travel space and are looking for a .NET Developer to join our existing team developing and running a number of consumer and travel industry-facing websites.
As an international organization, we have a multicultural working environment and the company has its own social club that organizes regular events for staff throughout the course of the year and employees also arrange many social events.
The successful applicant will become a senior member of a highly skilled and motivated team, developing and delivering high profile web based business systems solutions worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
• Developing web sites and web services using the .NET 2.0 / 3.5 framework
• Migration of Insight Vacations website to .NET-based platform
• Maintaining and extending the existing Tour Director website
• Engaging in code reviews with other developers in the team
• Actively participating in technical design meetings
• Providing technical assistance to service customers, both internally and externally.
• Provision of technical documentation where required
• Communication of acquired knowledge amongst other team members
• Liaison with other related project team members to delivery integrated solutions
In addition, the successful candidate will be encouraged to:
• Assist with the definition of functional requirements
• Analyse the consequences of proposed functional designs
• Undertake re-factoring of the existing code base where required
• Increase unit test coverage within existing code base
Essential Skills
• Minimum 4 years experience in an application development environment
• Minimum 3 years experience developing using C#
• Minimum 2 years development experience using ASP.NET
• Experience of ‘Classic’ ASP
• Solid understanding of OO principles, design patterns and re-factoring
• Unit Testing
• Excellent communication skills: a high level of spoken and written English
• Team Player
• Ability to work under pressure and be prepared to work extended hours if/when necessary at peak times during a project lifecycle
Desirable skills
• Enterprise CMS, especially Sitecore
• Web Services
• I.I.S.
• T.D.D./Agile
• Technical Documentation
• MS SQL
• XSLT, XQuery
Advantageous Skills
• Online Payment Systems
• Localisation and personalisation of web sites
• AJAX for .Net
• .Net configuration / other 3rd party frameworks
Our Technologies
• .NET Technologies
• ASP.NET Sitecore, Legacy WebForms
• Visual Studio 2008
• .NET 3.5
• C# 3.0
• MSSQL
• Resharper
• SVN
• JIRA
Benefits
• Generous Travel Concessions
• Pension
• Medical
• Travel Season Ticket Loan
• Social club
• Volunteer days
• 10% Innovation time
• Casual dress code
• Flexible working hours
Our team is focused on making our users productive and incrementally improving the systems in place. We periodically embrace new technologies and understand the benefits and challenges that those choices involve. We release our software in a predictable cycle which helps us maintain a high standard of quality.
Our team continuously strives to be better at what we do and we want to hire open-minded, passionate developers who want to improve their skills. We develop code in release cycles, generally following the Agile methodology, aiming to be responsive, flexible, pragmatic and appropriate in our technology choices.
Please note that we will only accept applications from candidates with a valid UK working visa
A competitive salary will be offered to the right candidate
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Interested? Please send CV's to Natalie.vorster@bookttcuk.com
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