Umbraco Developer at Emperor, Remote, £Freelance Rate

Contract Description

The Role

We are growing our network of Freelance Umbraco Developers to support us during our peak periods. If you have a deep understanding of the Umbraco ecosystem and thrive in a fast-paced support environment, we want to hear from you.

As a freelancer booked on a project, you will work closely with our Digital Project and Client teams to support, maintain and build high-performance websites. While we are open to freelancers working with us remotely, you must be available to work during UK business hours to collaborate with our project and technical teams.

Please note: You will need to be set up as a self-employed freelancer to undertake project work with us.

Type: Freelance contract
Timings: Flexible
Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities:

  • Write clean, scalable, maintainable code following team conventions and best practices - our aim is to deliver high-quality code, so it is important to understand best-practice code structure as well as performance and security

  • Ensure that tasks are completed on time and to specification, and are performant and secure

  • Participate in regular code reviews and take and give constructive feedback

  • Contribute to technical planning, estimation, progress meetings and standards

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 3+ years of professional back-end development experience

  • Write clean, scalable and efficient code in C# with an understanding of MVC architecture

  • Experience with Umbraco and Optimizely CMS

  • Familiarity with version control (GIT) and common workflows (feature branches, pull requests)

  • Experience with profiling and troubleshooting applications

  • Familiarity with Azure Portal

  • SQL Management Studio and basic knowledge of relational databases and SQL

  • An understanding of good security practice, including OWASP vulnerabilities

  • An understanding of blue-green deployment model

  • A collaborative mindset and willingness to learn

It’s a Bonus if You Have:

  • Experience with Azure DevOps

  • Experience using security testing tools

  • Node/JavaScript