Software Engineer

Chiltern Park Recruitment; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK-based technical recruitment firm is seeking a Software Engineer to provide design input and support for new and existing products. The role involves solving engineering queries and liaising with internal teams to deliver efficient solutions. Ideal candidates will have at least 3 years of experience in software engineering, a relevant degree, and skills in embedded software and various programming languages. Benefits include a competitive salary, flexible working, and excellent training opportunity.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Flexible working

Private Medical Insurance

Bonus

Excellent training and career progression

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years in a software engineering role.
• Relevant experience in an industrial software and firmware design environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide software engineering design input to new products.
• Support existing product range with engineering solutions.
• Assess technical queries and optimize software solutions.
• Liaise with departments to ensure best technical solutions.
• Create engineering documentation such as specifications and reports.
• Ensure timely and budget-compliant software engineering solutions.
• Adhere to engineering processes and standards.
• Conduct site visits to client assets as needed.

Skills

Industrial software and firmware design experience

Embedded software (STM32 IDE or similar)

High level development languages (C#, C++, C, Python)

Windows programming (VisualStudio, Windows IoT)

Software development knowledge (version control, Agile, Waterfall)

Continuous Integration tools (Pipelines, Jenkins)

Education

Software / Computer Science / Electrical/electronic engineering degree

Job description

BENEFITS:

Salary 50-60K!!!! 25 days holiday, flexible working, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus, excellent training and career progression.

THE ROLE

• Provide software engineering design input to new products.
• Provide software engineering support to the existing product range.
• Assess technical queries and provide software engineering solutions to a wide ranging products portfolio.
• Liaise with internal departments such as sales, procurement and production to ensure the best technical solution is provided in all instances.
• Creation of software engineering documentation such as specifications, proposals, test plans, reports and manuals.
• Ensuring software engineering solutions are provided on time and on budget.
• Adherence to global engineering end to end process and sub processes.
• Site visits to other company offices and client assets as and when required.
• Maintenance and development of company standards and processes for software version control

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Knowledge & Skills

• Relevant experience in an industrial software and firmware design environment
• Experience writing embedded software (STM32 IDE or similar)
• Experience with high level development languages preferably C#, C++ and C, Python
• Experience writing simple Windows programs (VisualStudio, Windows IoT or similar)
• Software development knowledge including version control using Azure DevOps (or similar) and development techniques (Agile, Waterfall or similar)
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Pipelines, Jenkins (or similar)

Experience Required

• Minimum of 3 years in a software engineering role

Experience of additional benefit

• Knowledge of network protocol UDP
• Knowledge of serial comms protocols over RS485/232, CAN
• Knowledge of SQL server/client data base applications
• Knowledge of user interface MVC framework
• Embedded software in safety critical applications
• Previous diving experience

Qualifications

• Software / Computer Science / Electrical/electronic engineering degree or equivalent industry experience

If you are interested andhave the skills and experience required please apply now, we will be happy to recommend you to our client.