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Software Engineer

Kingston upon Hull
6 days ago
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Introduction

Saab in UK is growing rapidly, with over 500 colleagues across eight sites. We bring together Swedish heritage and British expertise to drive innovation in areas such as software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. Joining Saab in UK means contributing to the security and resilience of society while building a career with real scope for personal and professional growth.

What you will be part of:

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.

The Role:

This role is part of our Public Safety Solutions Business Unit.

You'll join Saab's Public Safety Solutions business unit where we develop and deploy Command, Control, and Communication (C3) and a team dedicated to developing mission-critical software solutions that help police, fire and rescue services, ambulance dispatchers, airports, and public transport agencies coordinate and respond to incidents that matter.

As a Software Engineer within Telephony and Communications, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining our communication infrastructure, ensuring seamless, reliable, and secure voice and data connections across diverse and demanding environments. Your work will directly contribute to saving lives and keeping societies safe.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain telephony and communication software solutions.

Work with modern protocols and technologies (e.g. SIP, RTP, VoIP, PBX systems, messaging frameworks).

Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver high-performance, scalable, and resilient systems.

Work with our partners and customers to build tomorrow's solutions

Comprehend an existing solution and work towards MVP´s

Continuously explore and implement new technologies that enhance our communication capabilities.

Participate in end-to-end system design, from architecture to deployment.

Experience and Qualifications:

Degree in Software Engineering or related discipline.

C#.NET Core

Experience in multithreaded applications - Task Parallel Library specifically

Test driven development TDD

Git

Strong communication skills both with the team and externally

SIP signalling/RTP Realtime Transport Protocol

BDD (SpecFlow)

SQL

Docker

Wireshark

Distributed services

Linux

Team City (CICD) or similar

Call Centre experience

Asterisk

Kamailio

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview

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