Senior Software Engineer - GB

Crane Authentication; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Modern offices

Job summary

Crane Authentication in Gateshead is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our collaborative, engineering‑driven team. You will design, build, test, deploy, and support enterprise software across backend and frontend layers.

Expect to work with .NET/C#, Java/Spring Boot, and modern frontend frameworks like React, with mentoring responsibilities and active participation in CI/CD and cloud deployment. You will contribute to scalable, reliable systems and drive technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years developing commercial software.
• Experience with Git, Slack, Teams, Jira.
• Strong engineering practices and code quality.
• Mentoring and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with PO and engineers to shape technical solutions.
• Design and implement backend services and APIs.
• Develop user interfaces with modern JS frameworks.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Mentor team members and promote engineering standards.

Skills

API development

Frontend frameworks

Mentoring

Agile practices

Tools

Java / Spring Boot

.NET / C#

React / Angular / Vue

CI/CD (Octopus)

SQL Server / Postgres

Job description

As a partner to businesses and governments, Crane Authentication offers expertise and cutting-edge innovations that protect and enhance products, secure identities, safeguard revenues and enforce compliance. Customers from different business sectors and levels of government trust our team of 1,250 people for their expertise in R&D, security design, engineering and data-driven insights. We are an integral part of Crane NXT, a $2 billion dollar business with over 5,000 associates

Position Summary

We are looking for a collaborative, engaged, and technically strongSenior Full Stack Software Engineerto join our team. You will contribute across the entire development lifecycle, designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting high-quality software solutions.

You should be comfortable working withboth backend technologies (.NET or Java/Spring)andmodern frontend frameworks, even if your primary expertise is stronger in one area. As a senior engineer, you will mentor others, drive technical discussions, and help the team deliver scalable, maintainable systems.

This role also includes contributing todeployment processes, including CI/CD pipelines and environment configuration.

Key Responsibilities

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads and other engineers to understand product goals, explore ideas, and shape technical solutions.
• Contribute thoughtfully to architectural discussions, code reviews, and design sessions.
• Mentor and support engineers at all levels, helping the team develop skills, confidence, and engineering discipline.
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, retrospectives) as part of a cross-functional Scrum team.

Software Engineering

• Design and build backend services and APIs using both.NET (C#)andJava/Spring Boot.
• Develop user interfaces using React.
• Collaborate on the design and development of microservices and distributed systems.
• Write automated tests to ensure reliability and maintainability.
• Review and improve existing systems to address bugs, performance issues, and new product requirements.
• Maintain strong code quality through pairing, reviews, automated testing, and shared engineering standards.

Cloud & Deployment

• Contribute to deployments using CI/CD pipelines and Octopus.
• Work with infrastructure components such as messaging systems, databases, caches, and monitoring tools.
• Help ensure services are observable, resilient, and ready for scale.

Technical Ownership

• Investigate and resolve technical issues, supporting the team through escalations when needed.
• Advocate for continuous improvement in processes, tools, architecture, and engineering practices.
• Champion maintainable, scalable solutions with a long-term perspective.

Essential Technical Skills

• Strong experience of developing APIs and backend services which use relational databases such as SQL Server or Postgres in one of the following, with a willingness to work in both:

Java / Spring: Java 8+ with Spring

C# / .NET: C# .Net Core 5+

• Experience developing user interfaces using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.

Education & Experience

• 5+ years developing commercial software
• Experience with Git and team collaboration tools (Slack, Teams, Jira)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Proven ability to deliver enterprise-grade software with high reliability
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong problem-solving and architectural thinking
• Passion for mentoring, knowledge sharing, and supporting a high-performing team

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Work for a market leading, established product company.
• Nice modern offices with great facilities.
• Health Insurance.
• 24 days holidays plus national holidays.
• Life Insurance.

Crane Authentication is part of Crane NXT

Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. Crane NXT has approximately 5,000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com.

We value diversity at our company. Everyone who applies with the qualifications will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, colour, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We receive a high number of applications, so apologies if we are unable to provide specific feedback. If we feel you are a fit for the role, we’ll be in contact.