Job description
About SOS
As part of the LEAP group, our dedication to excellence and customer-focused approach has made us a trusted partner for legal professionals nationwide. Working alongside our team of passionate and driven individuals provides you with the opportunity to grow, develop, and make a meaningful impact in the legal sector.
At SOS our passion for advancing legal technology has made us a leading provider of legal software solutions. With decades of experience, we deliver innovative, reliable, and user-friendly software that enhances efficiency and ensures compliance - ultimately helping law firms streamline their operations. Our Practice Management software is widely recognised across the profession, and our customisable solutions empower firms to work in the way that best suits their needs.
The role
We are looking for a skilled Progress OpenEdge 4GL Developer to help maintain and enhance our legal, financial, and case management systems. Built over 25 years, and now running on OpenEdge 12.8, our products serve over 250 legal firms across the UK. This role involves both new development and ongoing support, and suits someone with at least 3 years of relevant experience. You will join a collaborative team of crossplatform developers and QA specialists.
Working Pattern & Location
09:00 – 17:30 Monday to Friday, Bath office.
Hybrid working pattern, 3 days office, and 2 days homeworking.
Reports to
Head of Development.
What you’ll do
- Maintaining and enhancing our existing products and services, in userinterfaces, embedded business logic, and API (Appserver / PAS) service code.
- Working with the team to ensure that deliverables are completed to specification and to agreed deadlines.
- Handling technical support issues arising from the high-volume daily use of our systems by our UK-wide user base of over 20,000 users.
- Assisting with the creation and maintenance of internal test system infrastructures.
- Advising on best practices of a range of Progress OpenEdge infrastructure components.
- Becoming fully conversant with our existing product features and working on enhancements to these features and extending their capabilities into new areas.
What you’ll bring
Essential skills:
- Demonstrable experience of application development in a variety of Progress OpenEdge development environments (App Builder, Procedure Editor, OpenEdge Developer Studio) across a range of OpenEdge versions (critically OE11 and OE12).
- Experience of working with various Progress OpenEdge components and wider infrastructure (DBA functions, Appserver / PAS configurations, TDE, database auditing, after imaging, replication, ODBC-based reporting).
- Experience with building complex Progress 4GL user-interfaces, including use of embedded Active X and .Net controls.
- Commercial experience of multi-user Progress OpenEdge applications, including an understanding of transaction scopes, record lock management, and designing/coding for high performance.
- Experience with Git-based code management systems (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- Working fully to GDPR regulations and internal security protocols to ensure that our systems and our clients’ data are always kept secure.
Desirable skills:
- Knowledge of Atlassian applications for development productivity: Jira (issue management), Bitbucket (source code management), and Confluence (documentation).
- Conversant with Microsoft and other productivity and communication apps (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Zoom, Slack)
- Previous experience with financial systems.
What you’ll get
On top of a competitive salary, we also offer an excellent benefits package:
- SOS pays 8% of your qualifying salary into your pension.
- Private health insurance, including optical and dental.
- Life insurance cover.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- PerkBox membership.
- 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays).
- Free light lunch and snacks.
Closing Date: Friday 31st October, 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible
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