Senior Software Engineer

CBSbutler Ltd.; Romsey; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence consultancy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in Romsey. You will design, implement, and test software components within an agile environment in the RF communication and sensors domain. The role offers flexibility in focusing on either Modern UI design or Embedded software development. A competitive salary of £60,000 to £80,000 is accompanied by flexible benefits covering health, savings, and well-being.

Benefits

Health and Wellbeing benefits

Savings and Protection

Life, Leisure and Entertainment benefits

Qualifications

• BEng/BSc and/or master's degree in a relevant subject.
• Experience in R&D and full product development lifecycle.
• Comfortable with CI/CD processes and modern software tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design components of the product software.
• Implement and test software as part of an agile team.

Skills

Communication systems knowledge

Software engineering experience

Agile development practices

Multiple language capability (C++/C#/Python)

Education

BEng/BSc and/or master's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Gitlab

VS Code

Docker

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - £80,000

Location: Romsey

Sector: Defence and National Security

You will join a leading defence and national security consultancy, working on software for products in the RF communication and sensors domain.

You will be responsible for the detailed design, implementation and testing of components of the product software, working with an agile team.

There is a degree of flexibility as to the agile tasking within the agile software team, depending on your expertise, the role can flex to focus either on Modern UI design and implementation or Embedded software development.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer your responsibilities will include:

• Detailed design of components of the product software
• Implementation and testing of software as part of an agile software team Gaining understanding of existing system products and future development agendas.

Your skills and experience

• BEng/BSc and/or master's degree in an appropriate engineering, computer science, information systems or related subject.
• Knowledge of Sensor and Communication systems.
• Software engineering experience from R&D concept through to the full product development lifecycle
• Modern software architecture practices
• Experience of some kind of scientific application/DSP, including algorithm implementation
• Capability in multiple languages and switching between languages rapidly, e.g. C++/C#/Python
• Comfortable with modern agile development practices e.g. Scrum/Kanban
• Comfortable with modern software tooling e.g. Gitlab, Git, VS Code

Ideally you will have experience in some of the following:

• Experience of modern UI design.
• Embedded software development (cross-compiling, deployment).
• Linux OS and tools, kernel drivers
• DevOps (Gitlab CI/CD scripting, pipelines, Docker)
• Team Leadership or Line Management experience

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary you will enjoy access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection and Life, Leisure and Entertainment.

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, the candidate should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance.