Chiltern Park Recruitment Ltd

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom full-time Senior GBP60,000 - GBP75,000
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Salary listed Curated
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About the role

An exciting new role with a multinational underwater engineering provider, serving the commercial and defence markets to provide software engineering design solutions and through life engineering support to the commercial & defence product ranges working as the technical lead for the software engineering team. Work can vary from creating software for new product design to meet client or internal specifications through to supporting an existing clients request to upgrade or change software in the field.
BENEFITS: Salary 60-75K!!!! 25 days holiday, flexible working, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus, excellent training and career progression.
In addition to the technical requirements above the Senior Engineer role also requires a level of management and leadership in order to ensure the team is delivering to meet departmental and company expectations.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Provide software engineering design input to new products.
Provide software engineering support to the existing product range.
Assess technical queries and provide software engineering solutions to a wide ranging products portfolio.
Liaise with internal departments such as sales, procurement and production to ensure the best technical solution is provided in all instances.
Creation of software engineering documentation such as specifications, proposals, test plans, reports and manuals.
Ensuring software engineering solutions are provided on time and on budget.
Adherence to global engineering end to end process and sub processes.
Site visits to other offices and client assets as and when required.
Maintenance and development of company standards and processes for software version control
Management of software team on performance, development, allocation/delegation of work, compliance to internal and external standards & regulations.
KEY BEHAVIOURS
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Ability to work as part of a team but also in isolation when required.
Excellent organizational skills
Excellent attention to detail.
Methodical and thorough whilst generating and checking documentation.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Proven experience in an industrial software and firmware design environment
Extensive experience writing embedded software (STM32 IDE or similar)
Good experience with high level development languages preferably C#, C++ and C, Python
Good experience writing Windows programs (VisualStudio, Windows IoT or similar)
Software development knowledge including version control using Azure DevOps (or similar) and development techniques (Agile, Waterfall or similar)
Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Pipelines, Jenkins (or similar)
Experience Required
Minimum of 6 years in a software engineering role
Experience of additional benefit
Experience with network protocol UDP
Experience with serial comms protocols over RS485/232, CAN
Experience with SQL server/client data base applications
Experience with user interface MVC framework
Embedded software in safety critical applications
Qualifications
Software / Computer Science / Electrical/electronic engineering degree or equivalent industry experience
If you are interested and have the required experience in a Software Engineering role please apply now and we will be happy to recommend you to our client!
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I am interested in the Senior Software Engineer role because I can bring practical experience in API integration, Figma and MySQL, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Chiltern Park Recruitment Ltd needs from this hire.

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