Vacancy for Innovation Software Engineer at Preservica

Digital Preservation Coalition; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Digital Preservation Coalition is seeking an Innovation Software Engineer to enhance its digital preservation efforts. The successful candidate will conduct impactful research and develop product features in a collaborative team. Opportunity for remote work is available, and candidates should have a strong background in Java and Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• BSc / MSc or PhD level education in an engineering / software / system related subject.
• Familiar with Agile development practices, including Continuous Integration and Scrum.
• Experience in Java development (Enterprise level a bonus).

Responsibilities

• Conduct original Digital Preservation research and deliver new product features.
• Creating prototypes and integrating software components into a functioning system.
• Developing verification plans and performing peer code reviews.

Skills

Java

Agile development practices

Continuous Integration

Scrum

Dependency Injection (Spring)

Hibernate

Web Services

Containerisation (Docker)

Message Broker (RabbitMQ)

Microservice knowledge

Education

BSc / MSc or PhD in engineering / software / system related subject

Job description

• Vacancy for Innovation Software Engineer at Preservica

Vacancy for Innovation Software Engineer at Preservica

Abingdon/ Remote UK

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join this Innovation Team, conducting original Digital Preservation research and delivering new product features to enhance the state of the art in this emerging area. You will be able to adapt your software style, producing fast prototype code to try out new ideas as well as writing well designed, testable and maintainable efficient code for new product features. Your work will extend to include:

• Discussing Digital Preservation research with world leading investigators

• Creating prototypes to evaluate new Digital Preservation concepts

• Analysis to create new production features

• Integrating software components into our fully functioning software system

• Developing verification plans – adhering to quality assurance procedures

• Performing Peer code reviews.

Our offices are in Abingdon but this role can be either office based or worked remotely in the UK.

What we look for

To be part of Preservica you need:

• BSc / MSc or PhD level education in an engineering / software / system related subject or equivalent through relevant training and/or experience.

• Be familiar with Agile development practices, including Continuous Integration and Scrum.

• Experience in Java development (Enterprise level a bonus).

• Good knowledge of Java, Dependency Injection (Spring), Hibernate and Web Services.

• RDMS experience an advantage.

• Containerisation (Docker), Message Broker (RabbitMQ) and Microservice knowledge an advantage.