Software Engineer

UK Hydrographic Office; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Partial remote option

Job summary

UK Hydrographic Office in Taunton, England, is seeking a Software Engineer to join an expanding agile development team. The role is office-based four days a week with one day remote, and offers flexible hours and a focus on delivering quality software.

You will work in a small delivery team with developers, testers, product owner and delivery manager, plus infrastructure, UX and business analytics support. Continuous improvement and professional development are encouraged.

Qualifications

• Experience in building, testing, and maintaining software.
• Experience with system design or large-scale deployments.
• Understanding of modern agile development practices (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience implementing CI/CD tools and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Work in an agile team, designing and crafting software solutions, including unit testing.
• Use automated testing and deployment to build and support a continuous delivery environment
• Collaborate with others in the development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developer and non-developers
• Continually develop your own skills as part of a programme of continuous professional development
• Take part in the support of applications and platforms

Skills

Agile methodologies

Unit testing

Continuous delivery

Software design

Collaboration

Professional development

Tools

Build pipelines

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join our expanding agile development team.

Everything we do is team based. We take Agile seriously; your delivery team will be small but will have the people it needs to get things done - developers, testers, product owner and a delivery manager - as well as access to infrastructure specialists, UX experts and business analysts.

Quality is paramount. You and your team will be supported to do excellent work. Everyone reviews code and everyone welcomes feedback.

We offer a great work / life balance. Peoples' start and end times are built around their own preferences and around a 10am - 2pm team time, where the team is focussed solely on building (no meetings!). The role is office-based for a minimum 4 days a week due to the nature of the work, with the option of 1 day a week working from home.

We are committed to providing part-time options and reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs.

We're proud that we've created this group by recruiting junior people who share a commitment to professional development and watched them grow with us.

See here to find out more about us: UKHO Software Engineering Careers , ADMIRALTY

This job role can be worked on a hybrid basis, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, working between the office in Taunton and remotely within the UK.

For this role, due to the nature of the work, office attendance is expected for 4 days a week.

As a Software Engineer you will:

• Work in an agile team, designing and crafting software solutions, including unit testing.


• Use automated testing and deployment to build and support a continuous delivery environment


• Collaborate with others in the development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences


• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developer and non-developers


• Continually develop your own skills as part of a programme of continuous professional development


• Take part in the support of applications and platforms

Person specification

• Either experience in building, testing, and maintaining software or experience supporting operationally live systems


• Either experience of system design and development best practice or implementing large scale deployments into a production environment


• Understanding of modern agile development practices such as Scrum or Kanban


• Experience of implementing modern tools to support continuous integration/deployment such as unit test frameworks, build pipelines etc.