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Staff Software Engineer

Gattaca

Saffron Walden

Hybrid

GBP 50,000 - 80,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Une opportunité passionnante s'offre pour un Lead Software Engineer chez Gattaca, à Saffron Walden. Vous serez impliqué dans des projets innovants, mélangeant développement logiciel embarqué et leadership d'équipe. Ce poste exige une expertise avérée en logiciels embarqués et une capacité à guider des ingénieurs, tout en contribuant à des projets de haut niveau dans divers secteurs.

Qualifications

Expérience en développement de logiciels embarqués, idéalement en RTOS ou Linux embarqué.
Exposition à des environnements techniques diverses comme FPGA et systèmes cloud.

Responsibilities

Gérer et encadrer une petite équipe d'ingénieurs.
Contribuer aux décisions architecturales et aux contributions de code.
Développer des pratiques et processus au sein de l'équipe.

Skills

Embedded Software Development

Leadership

Technical Communication

Project Management

Device Drivers

DSP

Education

Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Gattaca Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom

Staff Software Engineer

Gattaca Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom

This range is provided by Gattaca. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Lead / Staff Software Engineer

Location: Commute from Cambridge, Saffron Walden, Newmarket, Braintree, Hitchen, Harlow, St Neots, Bury St Edmunds, Chelmsford (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)

Type: Permanent | Hands-on Technical + Leadership

Other: No Visa sponsorship

Summary:

This position offers a roughly 80/20 split between hands-on embedded software development and leadership responsibilities, supporting a small team of 3–5 specialist software engineers. Projects are varied—ranging from short 2-day sprints to full-scale 2-year development programmes—across a wide range of industries.

It's an excellent fit for someone with solid embedded software experience and some exposure to leadership—whether direct or informal—who’s ready to take the next step. A broader understanding of cloud or application-level development is also useful, given the diversity of work.

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on role combining software development with team leadership. You’ll lead a small, close-knit sub-team within a larger multidisciplinary software group, contributing to the design and delivery of embedded systems for a range of real-world applications—from radar and sensing technologies to IoT devices and advanced communication systems.

Projects span sectors such as defence, healthcare, and industrial innovation, blending embedded software, electronics, FPGA, cloud, and system-level engineering.

As a Lead Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

Line management and mentoring for 3–5 engineers, supporting career development, conducting performance reviews, and assisting with resource planning.
Technical leadership within multi-disciplinary project teams, including architecture decisions and code contributions.
Process and practice development across the team, helping shape coding standards, development methodologies, and future technology direction.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be a capable and well-rounded embedded software engineer with a natural inclination to guide others. Our ideal candidate brings:

Strong experience in embedded software development, ideally across environments such as bare metal, RTOS, or embedded Linux.
Technical depth in areas such as device drivers, DSP, communications protocols, algorithm implementation, or working close to hardware.
Some leadership exposure—this could be through running small project teams, mentoring, or handling performance reviews.
Confidence in communicating technical ideas, presenting to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and producing well-reasoned project estimates.
Ideally, experience in a consultancy or project-based engineering environment, comfortable balancing technical excellence with time and budget constraints.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Engineering Services

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