Senior Software Developer (SQL and .NET)

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description

The Senior Software Developer is responsible, as part of the development team, to accomplish the necessary technical activities (e.g. analysis, technical documentation, development, testing, etc.) that are required to build and implement software. The task of the Senior Software Developer is to participate in the entire software development life cycle, developing, testing, improving and maintaining new and existing software, deploying and configuring the created applications.

Responsibilities and duties

Software development

• Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions.
• Develops technical specifications, determines operational feasibility of requirements.
• Transforms software designs and specifications into functioning software, producing clean and efficient code.
• Optimizes and maintains legacy systems, integrates software components and third-party programs.
• Performs software upgrades and configurations to make software and systems more secure and efficient.
• Improves operations and optimizes system efficiency by analysing performance indicators and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Proactively investigates problem areas, recommends and executes improvements.
• Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.

Testing, debugging

• Troubleshoots development and production problems across multiple environments.
• Resolves user-submitted problems and questions, fixes bugs in existing code.
• Revises, updates, refactors and debugs existing code.
• Designs, implements, and conducts tests to verify the proper operation of code.

Documentation

• Develops and updates training and technical documentation, including flowcharts, diagrams, code comments and clear code, using company standards.
• Demonstrates the developed solutions and features to users and colleagues.
• Documents development and operational procedures.
• Maintains project knowledge by documenting software changes and revisions.

Training and support

• Serves as an expert on the developed applications and provides training and technical support for users.
• Supports junior developers’ work.

Collaboration, teamwork

• Actively participates in the procedures and ceremonies as prescribed by the development methodology.
• Shares knowledge, maintains best practices within the development team and across teams.
• Contributes to team meetings; collaborates with the team to determine and fine-tune development methodologies and toolsets.

Personal accomplishments

• Maintains and updates professional knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and by participating in educational workshops, reading professional publications, and participating in professional societies.

Qualifications

Education Background:

• Educational background  in computer science, software engineering or other relevant discipline

Experience:

• Proven experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer or similar role.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Understanding of object-oriented software engineering.
• Knowledge of coding languages and frameworks/systems necessary for performing his tasks.
• Experience with .NET, Visual Basic.
• Working knowledge of databases (SQL), in-depth understanding of data management.

Languages requirement:

• Fluent English is a must

Personal profile:

• Ability to write clean, well-documented code
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting attitude
• Analytical mind with problem-solving attitude
• Demonstrable ability to discover and fix errors in code
• Documentation skills
• Teamwork
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently.

Additional Information

Additional information

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.