Junior .NET Developer (Interested in Linguistics)

Job Description 

This role is for U.K. residents only

We’re passionate about the English language, and we design software that helps writers and editors produce their very best work. Our product, PerfectIt, is the leading proofreading software for independent editors, proposal managers, medical writers, and publications teams.

As our Employee Number 25, you will be enhancing our flagship product. You’ll be working directly with our Chief Engineer to take PerfectIt’s capabilities to a whole new level. Our audience are (mostly) not technologists, so you’ll make the complicated seem easy.

We’re a growing, profitable company; and we've been working 100% remote since before it was cool!

Duties and Responsibilities

You will:

• Contribute to the development of the next version of PerfectIt (C#)

• Improve our app for online Office

• Develop efficient text-search algorithms

• Work with our internal word usage databases

• Refactor our code to deliver performance improvements

• Put in place unit tests and quality control mechanisms to improve our codebase.

Skills & Requirements 

Candidates must have experience in commercial programming roles. In addition, candidates should have extensive knowledge of the following:

• Languages: Microsoft C#

• Development Environments: Visual Studio

• Working with source control (Git)

• Unit testing (we are obsessed with unit testing)

• A love of language (the human kind) or a degree in English Literature, Linguistics, or similar.

Candidates will have an advantage if they have experience of, or the ability to learn, the following:

• Regular expressions

• Knowledge of functional programming

• Natural language processing 

• Office scripting languages (we use Visual Studio Tools for Office, Javascript API for Office, and Google Apps-Script)

• SQL Server

• ASP.NET MVC

About Intelligent Editing 

Intelligent Editing was launched in 2009. We’re not going to be the next Uber, and we don’t want to be. We like being small and profitable with a great team. We believe in steady growth, quality service, and producing an excellent product.

We’re at the forefront of proofreading/editing technologies. We were among the first companies to produce apps for Office and add-ons for Google Docs. We’re interested in ways that natural language processing can advance the field. 

Our development team enjoys complex problems. Most of us have our own projects outside of work, and we bring that energy to the (virtual) office. Books that get passed around the team include Clean Code (Uncle Bob), Functional Programming in C# (Enrico Buonanno) and Domain Modeling Made Functional (Scott Wlaschin). Oh, and did we mention that we’re obsessed with unit testing?

We believe that developers can contribute more to the business when they get to interact with end-users. Some of our best business ideas have come from giving our engineering team exposure to customers and the problems that they face. We’re always open to new and innovative suggestions from all our developers at any level.

Benefits

Work That Makes a Difference

We help users focus on the parts of their job that matter. From medical writers working on lifesaving vaccines to editors helping novelists tell their stories, PerfectIt helps users to worry less about typos and spend more time on the meaningful part of their work.

An Accepting and Diverse Workplace

Intelligent Editing is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create a workplace that celebrates diversity. We do not tolerate discrimination. Our users are keepers of the written word, and we stand with those working to shine a light on all forms of exclusion and inequality. #BlackLivesMatter.

Summary of Highlights

• Salary: £40k - £50k

• Length of Contract: Permanent (subject to a three-month trial)

• Private healthcare and life insurance

• Annual £500 equipment allowance

• Annual personal development allowance

• Annual £250 a year towards gym membership

• Charity donation matching

• 30 Days annual leave

• Annual company away day

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and must be based in the UK. Find out more about us at https://intelligentediting.com 

Intelligent Editing asks respectfully to only apply through the application form and not email/apply to them directly. Recruiters and Agencies please do not contact Intelligent Editing directly.