Senior Software Engineer

Spectrum IT Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aviation simulation company in the UK seeks a Senior Software Engineer in a hybrid role based in Bournemouth. The successful candidate will lead a small team, ensuring technical accuracy and quality in software development. Candidates should have strong leadership skills and experience with C++, C#, or Java. This position offers attractive benefits including health care, annual leave, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Health Care

25 Days annual leave

Life Assurance

Pension

Flexible Working

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software development at a senior technical level.
• Experience of team leadership including objective setting and performance management.
• Understanding of software change management and defect tracking systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for software development.
• Monitor task progress and report to stakeholders.
• Support planning of software development activities.
• Undertake software development activities including designs and testing.

Skills

Leadership in software development

Object-oriented design

Knowledge of C++, C#, or Java

Software version control

Agile/Scrum methodology

Tools

Jira

SVN or Git

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

Hybrid - Bournemouth HQ

We are working alongside one the UK's leading aviation simulation companies in the recruitment of a Software Team Lead Engineer.

Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for providing technical leadership for software development work and line management for a small team of software engineers as well as their own technical tasks. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and leadership skills, strong software development skills and a passion for the on-time delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet all customer needs.

What Will I Need for The Role: -

• Proven experience in software development at a senior technical level, ideally on MS Windows platform, with complex software systems.
• Experience of team leadership including objective setting, appraisals, performance management, etc.
• Proven experience of objected oriented design and use of software languages including C++, C# or Javascript. (Someone without C++ but with C# or Java would be considered).
• Understanding of software version control and version control software such as SVN or Git.
• Familiarity with software change management and defect tracking systems such as Jira.
• Experience of working within Agile/Scrum and waterfall development lifecycles.

Responsible For: -

• Technical leadership of a team of software engineers to support development of the company's simulation products including:

Monitoring of task progress and reporting of progress, issues and risks to internal stakeholders including project and product managers

Support the planning of software development activities including work breakdown, estimation, proposal of technical approaches and solutions.

Ensuring that the work of the team is technically correct and meets the defined requirements.

• Undertake software development activities including architectural, high-level & detailed designs, implementation of new features, bug fixes, testing of own work and that of the team prior to a handover to QA.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives relating to the development process, development.
• environment and tools used.

Benefits: -

• Health Care
• 25 Days annual leave
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Flexible Working

For more information, please email (url removed) for more detail.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.