Department: Software Development Location: Pune, India Description ParentPay Group is Europe's leading software product company and the UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries. Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations. ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development. Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies. Key Responsibilities Getting code into production: Ability to get code of all types—including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes, and experiments—into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way. Requirement Analysis and Articulation: Ability to use relevant artifacts, approaches and processes to understand and communicate what is required and why it is required. Estimation: Ability to apply various estimation techniques to predict the most realistic amount of effort required to develop or maintain software based on incomplete, uncertain and noisy input. Continuous Integration: Ability to write code in a way that supports Continuous Integration of code, that is, frequently committing changes to a single trunk or master. Performance & Scalability Engineering: Ability to assess, recommend, design, implement, optimize, and troubleshoot measures to ensure systems perform as needed. This includes responsiveness, coping with traffic load, coping with large data sets, and processing times. Securing Applications: Ability to design and implement software which exhibits good security properties and which avoids common weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Legacy remediation: Ability to operate in or around older systems, and devise and execute strategies for modernizing and improving them. This includes awareness of a range of legacy architectures and the patterns and tactics for the stabilization, remediation or replacement of them. The ability to analyze the technical, business, and operational pain-points of applications and broader systems. Identifying incremental steps towards a future state architecture, including techniques for stabilizing with test harnesses, intercepting and rerouting or duplicating functional and data flows, extraction of services or tiers, wrapping with facades or adapters, refactoring, and strangulation and end-of-life. Emotional Intelligence: recognizes, understands and manages their own emotions and recognizes, understands, shares and influences the emotions of others. Collaboration: works jointly with others to co-create and achieve a common goal. This includes learning, practising and experimenting with tools, techniques and frameworks that foster collaborative working environments. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise SQL Data Visualization Data Analytics SQL performance SQL query tuning SQL monitoring SQL Data warehousing SQL Indexing Star Schema Design ETL processes Data modelling Azure Data Factory Azure Storage Accounts Blob Storage