Sr, Software Development Engineer

Viavi Solutions Inc.; Newbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the United Kingdom seeks a skilled software developer to join their dynamic team. You will design and develop sophisticated Service Assurance solutions, primarily in Java or C++, while engaging in an Agile development process. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of development experience and extensive knowledge of Linux and microservice architectures. This role is based in Newbury and offers an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development, at least 4 years using Java.
• Extensive experience in a Linux environment on enterprise systems.
• Proven ability to adapt skills to other programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software primarily in Java or C++.
• Participate in design reviews and sprint planning.
• Provide support to multifunctional teams.

Skills

Java

C++

Linux

Micro service architecture

Kubernetes

Kafka

Agile methodologies

CI/CD pipeline

Scala

Python

Education

Computer Science / Software degree

Tools

Atlassian product suite

Job description

Summary :

VIAVI (NASDAQ : VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customer’s most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses, and data centres. We are also at the forefront of optical security – we bend light to develop and deliver optical solutions that provide security to the world’s currencies and safety and performance applications for consumer electronics and spectrometry.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Position Information :

We are seeking a skilled, highly motivated, developer to join our lively and dynamic development team. The team develops Service Assurance solutions to mobile telecom operators around the world. The solutions process and store billions of events a day and are truly ‘Big data’ systems. You will join a team working on the next generation of scalable assurance systems developing a micro service architecture utilising leading edge containerised Linux instances orchestrated by Kubernetes. The solution must be reliable as it scales to handle the very high data rates and offers options to flexibly manage the load and provide graceful degradation if overloaded, ensuring it provides the best service to our customers. The team is divided into several multi-disciplinary sub-teams covering the suite of solutions organised into vertical delivery streams supporting a full CI / CD pipeline using an Agile development process. The role is based in Newbury.

Duties & Responsibilities :

• Design and develop software primarily in Java, or C++ on Linux systems.
• Participate in design reviews, feature, and release content reviews.
• Participate in sprint planning, story estimation and sprint retrospectives in a multi-disciplined Agile product team.
• Provide support to the wider multifunctional team that includes DevOps, product management, product documentation, support and service teams.

Pre‑Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements :

• A proven track record in all aspects of software development activities developing complex commercial software.
• 5+ years of software development with at least 4 years developing using Java.
• Extensive experience of working in a Linux environment ideally on enterprise systems.
• Knowledge and experience of micro service architectures including containerization, and experience of Kubernetes and Kafka.
• A hands‑on engineer with the experience and diligence to work on their own, within a team and closely with other stakeholders to deliver high quality solutions.
• Experience of using Agile development methodologies.
• Experience on working in a CI / CD SW development pipeline.
• An ability to deliver against challenging deadlines with a flexible approach to the demands of the role.
• Proven ability to adapt their skills to other programming and scripting languages, examples include Scala and Python.
• Highly technical, with an intellectual capacity to add to and develop the product suite.
• Team player who is ambitious and an enthusiastic self‑starter.
• Open and direct communication with excellent oral and written communication skills, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude.

Desired but not essential :

• Ideally a graduate of a Computer Science / Software degree.
• Knowledge of mobile telecoms, including 5G, LTE, core and or RAN systems highly desirable. Ideally having worked on systems in areas such as network planning, network optimization, protocol analysis or other software that supports the network technology.
• Experience and advocate of BDD.
• Knowledge of Atlassian product suite.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.