Job Description
Who Are We?
Founded in 1994, our mission at Information Systems Limited is to provide the most comprehensive, cost-effective and innovative business software solutions through the cooperation of expertise and knowledge.
We are committed to delivering the highest level of value to our customers and providing a dynamic and challenging environment for all our employees. The group now employs over 65 professionals, services over 600 customers both locally and overseas and is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
Job Purpose
The primary responsibility of this role will be to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable software across the C#/.NET back-end and SQL data layer, while contributing to front-end integration where required.
Provide best-quality software using appropriate, up-to-date technologies aligned with company standards. Maintain a high level of code quality and performance; support the integration of new technologies where there is clear business value. Assist the Software Development Manager/Team Lead with planning, scheduling, and resource allocation to ensure project deadlines are met.
Provide effective support to After-Sales and product/project teams.
Duties and Responsibilities
Software Engineering (C#/.NET & APIs)
- Analyse, design, implement, and maintain applications and services in C# on .NET.
- Design and build RESTful APIs including authentication/authorisation, versioning, pagination, error modelling, and performance considerations.
- Produce and maintain APIs while adhering to backwards-compatibility and deprecation policies.
- Follow SOLID principles, dependency injection, async programming, and clean solution structuring.
Database Engineering (SQL Server).
- Design and maintain schemas, tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, and ETL processes in Microsoft SQL Server.
- Diagnose and tune performance using execution plans, statistics, and SARGable patterns; ensure transactional correctness and data integrity.
Quality, Testing & Standards.
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and other test approaches to agreed coverage thresholds.
- Perform and participate in code reviews; follow the company’s coding standards and secure-by-design practices.
- Ensure complete and proper documentation of programme/system changes and maintain version control in accordance with company procedures.
DevOps & Delivery.
- Use Git and Azure DevOps for branching, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, and releases/rollbacks.
- Contribute to observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and support incident response/post-mortems.
- Release and implement new or modified software internally and at clients in line with company procedures.
Security, Privacy & Compliance.
- Apply secure coding practices, protect secrets/credentials appropriately, and operate on least-privilege principles.
- Handle personal data in accordance with company policy and GDPR; remediate vulnerabilities promptly.
Legacy modernisation.
Refactor and migrate legacy components (e.g., VB/Clarion) to modern .NET services using incremental “strangler” approaches and characterisation tests.
ERP Domain & product understanding.
- Develop a working understanding of the EYESEL Business Suite modules and their integrations.
- Produce lightweight artefacts (diagrams, ADRs, checklists) to document domain knowledge and support delivery.
Collaboration & Communication.
- Collaborate effectively with Architecture, front-end/web design, Product, QA, Support, and other stakeholders.
- Provide clear estimates, status updates, and risk/issue escalations; meet agreed deadlines.
- Mentor and support colleagues; contribute to knowledge sharing through reviews, demos, and documentation.
- Ensure the team remains proactive in pursuing practical, value-adding solutions and innovation within our technology practice.
- Work as part of a shared pool of developers, with allocation varying by project/Client needs, skills fit, priority, and availability.
- Report progress and status to superiors and escalate blockers promptly for resolution.
- Communicate with client users as required by the nature and type of issue.
Documentation.
Maintain up-to-date technical documentation (readmes, runbooks, API specs, database change logs) for all owned components.
Support & Operations.
Address reported bugs efficiently and provide support for modules developed by the team, including reasonable out-of-hours assistance if agreed.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience.
- A first degree in software development.
- Must be well organised and proactive.
- Demonstrate excellent knowledge of SQL.
- Very good working knowledge of either .NET platform using C#, WPF, API and WCF or Clarion IDE.
- Excellent command of written and spoken Business English.
- Other languages would be considered an asset.
- Other on-the-job training would be provided as and when required. Such training would be discussed during the incumbent’s performance appraisal. Such training may be carried out internally, locally, or overseas.
Other Personal Qualities.
- Commitment to exceptional standards.
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment where flexibility is essential
- Effective communication, attention to detail, time management, and analytical thinking
- An ability to work with personal accountability for results and productivity
Other Requirements & Details:
- ISL is an equal opportunity employer.
- This is a full-time (40 hours per week) role.
- We are flexible and can offer fully remote or hybrid work arrangements subject to the following conditions.
A) If you are a TCN/EU Citizen already based in Malta, then you must have worked in Malta for at least 2 years in a similar position and hold a valid working permit and passport.
B) If you are a TCN/EU Citizen not based in Malta, then you will be offered to work for us ONLY in a fully remote manner. No relocation is available.
- On-the-job training would be provided.
Salary will be commensurate with experience, expertise and knowledge.
24×7 Access to our corporate Learning Management System as part of an ongoing drive to Learn and Develop your career.
Access to corporate employee incentive & discount schemes.