Software Engineer

• Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum
• Hybrid working: 3 days based in the office, 2 days remote working.
• Annual Company Bonus
• Annual Leave - 25 days increasing to 28 after 6 years’ service.
• Defined Contribution Pension - Employer 16% / Employee 11% (maximum)
• Life Assurance
• Flexitime

Our client is a leading nuclear technology company that specialise in designing and manufacturing technology for the nuclear sector.

They currently require the services of a Software Engineer to join their technical services team based in Capenhurst.

Responsibilities:

• Carry out all duties to the highest standards of health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Generation of bespoke software solutions for products including documentation, code generation and test
• Liaison with internal specialists and customers to understand their requirements and to work collaboratively with them to develop a range of tools to meet their needs especially in data analysis.
• Development of existing and new products and services to grow new business opportunities.
• Provide routine maintenance, trouble shooting and training support to customers for their existing systems.
• Management of external suppliers for delivery of activities to support customer projects and internal development activities.
• Installation and commissioning of products on customer sites
• Regular customer interaction to understand their technical requirements and ensure that products are meeting their expectations.
• Generation and management of documentation requirements including drawings such as network and database schematics, operator and maintenance manuals, commissioning procedures etc.
• Capability to develop project proposals including schedule and cost forecasts.
• Ability to manage project deliverables and provide clear status reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Requirement for travel to European suppliers and other customer sites

Qualifications & Experience:

• A good quality degree preferably in software engineering or related discipline
• Sound understanding of software design principles and concepts coupled to an ability to communicate effectively in a mixed level team.
• Use of software and system modelling techniques such as state charts, UML, and others
• Disciplined and structured approach with logical thought process
• Development capability in C# and SQL, with optional capability in C
• Knowledge of end-to-end build process automation and other tasks in the software development loop including scripting languages and installers
• Knowledge of working in an agile development environment
• Benefits of source control and application of source control within a project using version control tools
• Coding styles and standards
• Knowledge of test-driven development and ability to develop appropriate test regimes.
• Knowledge of Cyber security measures, system back-up and recovery
• Good interpersonal skills and a high level of computer literacy
• An ability to speak French or German in addition to English would be an advantage.

For more information, please contact Scarlet Wilson.