Software Engineer (Tooling)

Dexory; Wallingford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare via Bupa

Life insurance

Income protection

Pension option

Employee Assistance Programme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Full meals onsite

Fun team events

Job summary

A logistics technology company in Wallingford is looking for a Software Engineer (Tooling) to develop and maintain tools for robotic commissioning and operations. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering fundamentals, proficiency in Python and Go, and experience with tools like Docker. This full-time role emphasizes reliability and usability, offering a variety of benefits including private healthcare and onsite meals.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with focus on reliability and maintainability.
• Experience building internal tooling for operational workflows.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python and Go.

Responsibilities

• Own, build, and enhance tools for robot commissioning and servicing.
• Unify and standardize existing tools into a coherent toolchain.
• Build and maintain CLI tooling for robot operations.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Python

Go

C++

Version control (Git)

Linux command line

Debugging and problem-solving

Tools

Docker

GitHub Releases

Job description

Software Engineer (Tooling)

Location: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Dexory is transforming the warehousing and logistics industry through data intelligence. We’re recruiting a software engineer to own, build, and enhance the tools we use for robot commissioning, validation, and servicing. Offices are based in Wallingford, Oxford and work will be predominantly on site.

Any experience within robotics, automotive, high‑tech manufacturing or similar environments would be a big plus. Experience programming on devices also desirable. Open to candidates from development, DevOps, tooling engineering, etc.

Responsibilities & Skills

• As the company has grown our tools have likewise grown organically over time to fit the needs of the teams, this has meant different approaches to how tools are built, maintained and used. This role brings clear ownership and consistent engineering practices to that ecosystem: unifying the toolchain, standardising behaviour and distribution, and improving maintainability so other teams can confidently adopt, extend and enjoy using the tools.
• Unifying and standardising existing tools into a coherent toolchain with consistent UX, behaviour, and quality bars.
• Building and maintaining reliable CLI tooling used on laptops for robot and fleet operations (configuration, access, modification, validation).
• Working with partner teams to deliver web UI tooling where appropriate, ensuring consistent workflows and shared interfaces.
• Establishing and improving packaging and distribution practices (e.g., Docker, GitHub Releases)
• Improving maintainability through testing, CI/CD, versioning, and clear deprecation/migration paths for legacy tools.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with a focus on reliability, usability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Comfortable with Linux based systems and capable of working in the command line.
• Experience building internal tooling for operational workflows (commissioning, deployment, servicing, test/validation, or similar).
• Very good version control experience with Git.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go, and comfort working across a multi‑language codebase (Python/Go/C++).
• Experience distributing and operating internal tools (packaging, dependency management, release workflows), ideally including Docker and GitHub Releases.
• Ability to write clear documentation and specifications so tools can be adopted and used effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong debugging/problem‑solving skills across tooling, systems, and hardware‑adjacent workflows.

Operating Principles

• Performance: High standards, outstanding results.
• Commitment: All in, every time.
• One team: One mission, shared success.

Benefits

• Private healthcare via Bupa with 24/7 medical helpline
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Pension: 4+% employee with option to opt into salary exchange, 5% employer
• Employee Assistance Programme – mental wellbeing, financial and legal advice/support25 days holiday per year + bank holidays
• Full meals onsite in Wallingford
• Fun team events on and offsite, snacks of all kinds in the office.

AAP/EEO Statement

Dexory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. It prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Robotics Engineering and Software Development