Software Engineer, Development and Automation

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development organization is seeking a Software Engineer with extensive experience in Java and Agile methodologies. This hybrid role requires strong skills in Java full-stack development and collaboration with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate will also have experience with test automation frameworks and a solid understanding of software design principles.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture.
• Experience with development and testing tools.
• Skilled in designing and implementing test automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain solutions that are customer-centric and high-performance.
• Collaborate across teams to optimise software engineering capability.
• Produce, test, and implement working code across the software life cycle.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Java full-stack development

Microservices architecture

ReactJS

Spring and Spring Boot

Bug tracking systems (Jira)

Collaborative platforms (Confluence)

Test automation frameworks

Job description

Join us as a Software Engineer, Development and Automation

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from an advertised office or hub minimum two days per week

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with development and testing tools, including bug tracking systems like Jira, and collaborative platforms such as Confluence wikis. Skilled in designing and implementing test automation frameworks and quality engineering practices using Java , ensuring robust and scalable testing solutions.

You’ll also need:

• Strong secondary skill set in Java full-stack development, including Microservices architecture, ReactJS, Spring, and Spring Boot
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, and associated tools such as Selenium with Java, Cucumber, and REST Assured for building and testing microservices
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance