Software Engineer

Guildford
1 month ago
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Software Engineer

We are recruiting for a Software Engineer on contract to work for a leading Defence organisation. The role can be based in their Guildford, Surrey or Newcastle offices 3 days per week and remote for 2.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The candidate will also need to be able to achieve or have SC clearance.

Role Overview

The Software Engineer will join our collaborative, forward-thinking Agile Scrum team, working on innovative Geospatial software, using the latest cloud-based technologies. The engineer will be involved in every stage of the software development life cycle, from initial design through development, testing, and deployment, delivering robust, scalable cloud-based services.

The role is based at our Newcastle office. Flexible working arrangements are in place for the team. The successful candidate is expected to be in the office 3 days a week, with the opportunity to work 2 days from home.

Responsibilities

  • Develop high-quality, readable, scalable and easily maintained code, using Java and related technologies, meeting requirements and coding standards.

  • Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity.

  • Contribute to quality assurance by writing unit and automated tests.

  • Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines

  • Ensure code is sufficiently documented and share knowledge of solutions implemented.

  • Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and daily stand-ups in a true Agile environment, contributing to agile based estimating.

  • Work with the scrum team to meet the sprint commitments

    Skill Set

    Essential

  • Java

  • Cloud Services development

  • Unit testing

    Desirable

  • DevSecOps awareness using tools such as Tekton, ArgoCD, SonarQube

  • Red Hat Openshift container platform or Kubernetes

  • Quarkus Framework

  • Front End development using Angular

    This is an umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35

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