Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000

Location: Southampton - Hybrid on site 40%

Sector: Defence and National Security

You will join a leading defence and national security consultancy, working on software for products in the RF communication and sensors domain.

You will be responsible for the detailed design, implementation and testing of components of the product software, working with an agile team.

There is a degree of flexibility as to the agile tasking within the agile software team, depending on your expertise, the role can flex to focus either on Modern UI design and implementation or Embedded software development.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer your responsibilities will include:

Detailed design of components of the product software

Implementation and testing of software as part of an agile software team Gaining understanding of existing system products and future development agendas.

Your skills and experience:

BEng/BSc and/or master's degree in an appropriate engineering, computer science, information systems or related subject.

Knowledge of Sensor and Communication systems.

Software engineering experience from R&D concept through to the full product development lifecycle

Modern software architecture practices

Experience of some kind of scientific application/DSP, including algorithm implementation

Capability in multiple languages and switching between languages rapidly, e.g. C++/C#/Python

Comfortable with modern agile development practices e.g. Scrum/Kanban

Comfortable with modern software tooling e.g. Gitlab, Git, VS Code

Ideally you will have experience in some of the following:

Experience of modern UI design.

Embedded software development (cross-compiling, deployment).

Linux OS and tools, kernel drivers

DevOps (Gitlab CI/CD scripting, pipelines, Docker)

Team Leadership or Line Management experience

Benefits:

As well as a competitive salary you will enjoy access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection and Life, Leisure and Entertainment.

Security Information :

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, the candidate should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see (url removed)