Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

DEPARTMENT: Software – Technology

REPORTS TO: Software Manager

JOB HOLDER'S NAME:

1. PURPOSE OF JOB:

To provide hands-on software engineering expertise to support the Software team to bring new products to market whilst improving the design and performance of all existing products.

2. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• To develop maintainable, well-structured software in line with coding standards
• To work collaboratively with colleagues in the Software team, Technology department, other departments and international offices
• To be actively involved in the formal product development process, from idea generation and screening, through concept and prototype development, to final design verification and validation
• To identify new areas of research and work closely with other product development team members to deliver product solutions that fulfil the needs of the customer
• To generate requirements documentation to ensure objectives and technical specifications are clearly defined
• To provide guidance and support during the seamless transition of new projects from development into mainstream production
• To always act in a professional manner to develop products which are aligned with the principles, strategy and goals of the business and expectations of the customer

3. CONTEXT

There is a requirement within the Technology team for a Software Engineer-end, to accelerate development of new and existing products.

4. KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

The Job Holder must have:

• Minimum 1-2 years’ C# software development experience in a commercial environment.
• A keen eye for detail and identifying problems at an early stage
• An innovative and self-motivated approach, good all-round engineering knowledge, a flexible attitude and be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team to meet time and budget deadlines The Job Holder may also have:

• 3 years’ commercial software development experience for industrial products
• Qualified to HND / Degree standard in software engineering or similar discipline
• Interested in building DevOps skills and experience (TeamCity or similar e.g. Azure Devops)
• Have experience of a variety of database technologies and platforms, such as MS SQL (T-SQL), PostgreSQL and SQLite
• Have experience of version control systems such as Git
• Good understanding of applying advanced domain driven design and development principles to industry best practices
• Awareness of standard design pattern (and anti-patterns)
• Ability to translate technical terminology and produce similar standard documentation for peers
• Experience of developing intranet-based browser applications
• Experience of developing GUI front ends (XAML/Blazor/Razor)
• Experience of implementing REST web services
• Have embedded software development experience using C++ or C (for Linux)
• Willingness to travel internationally on an occasional basis
• Able to demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively with customers and suppliers Skills Matrix, based on our tech stack (ordered by desirability) Primary Skill Including C# ASP.Net Core EF Core Blazor / Razor JSInterop WPF (legacy) SQL T-SQL PostgresSQL Message Queue MQTT RabbitMQ Data Analysis / Visualization Python Jupyter Notebook R/RStudio Plotly M2M (Industrial Control) OPCUA Modbus/TCP C++ Embedded Linux Microcontroller (Platform IO) SQLite DevOps TeamCity ESXI/Hypervisor Docker/PodMan