Senior Software Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Wilmslow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Cloud platform team. This role involves designing and maintaining software systems critical for scientific analysis, working with cutting-edge technologies such as AWS and microservices, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in software development, particularly in C# and agile environments, making a significant impact on software used worldwide.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a software developer with a focus on back-end technologies.
• Knowledgeable in software engineering practices and continuous delivery.
• Experience in regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software for the Cloud platform team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on technical issues.
• Act as a technical expert and communicate best practices.

Skills

C#

.Net

Amazon Web Services

Microservices

API development

Unit testing

Test Driven Development

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Agile delivery

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

Atlassian Jira

Confluence

JFrog Artifactory

Datadog

Job description

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The team you'll join are currently completing the development of the suite of micro-services (e.g. Tenancy Admin, Notifications) written in C# and built on the AWS architecture that will comprise our first Cloud Platform, due live later in the year. Many other initiatives are being worked on to support the new platform, such as developing monitoring using DataDog, security hardening using GitHub Actions, introducing Playwright for our automation testing.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer within the Cloud platform, you would be part of the Informatics group producing software that is used by people worldwide for specialist measurement and scientific analysis. Your main responsibilities would include:

• Designing, developing and/or maintaining all aspects of software developed within the Cloud platform team
• Collaborating with stakeholders on software and technical issues.
• Acting as technical expert for coding, process and best practices (e.g. adherence to Definition of Done) and effectively communicate this to the team

We are looking for the following skills

• Extensive knowledge and proven experience as a software developer, with exposure to elements of our back-end technology stack (C#, .Net)
• Good experience working with Amazon Web Services, Microservices, API development
• Knowledge and application of software engineering practices (e.g. Unit testing, TDD, CI/CD, SOLID, BDD etc.) and experience working as part of an agile delivery team.
• Continuous delivery, with pipelines implemented in Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience implementing and maintaining Datadog
• Experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), with Gherkin & SpecFlow
• Atlassian Jira, Confluence & JFrog Artifactory
• Ideally some software security best practices and implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)
• Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices). Not essential