SOFTWARE ENGINEERS – CONTRACTS 12 MONTHS – HYBRID TELFORD Shropshire
Hybrid working typically, 2 days on site, 3 days from home but this can fluctuate depending on business needs.
Software Engineer Full Lifecycle design, development & integration of equipment at the system and sub-system levels. Within this role you will be exposed to several different vehicles and systems. There will be a mixture of new development, maintaining legacy applications and specifying requirements for externally developed equipment.
AT THE COAL FACE / TASKS/ RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement software solutions.
- Support the overall system design process to ensure optimal allocation of functionality between different physical parts of the system.
- Validation of software and systems, which may include producing test tools, the generation of test schedules, test and integration plans and technical reports.
- Provide support to task planning and estimating.
- Schedule own work to meet target timescales and deliverable milestones.
- Perform self-verification of own tasks to ensure completeness and quality of information.
- Undertake peer reviews to ensure completeness and quality of output.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS / PROVEN ABILITY
- Object oriented C++17 or later development with knowledge of design patterns.
- Understanding of UML/SysML.
- Full software development lifecycle.
- Software verification and testing experience.
- Good communication skills.
DESIRABLES
- Agile development.
- Knowledge of integration and target hardware testing would be advantageous.
- Development with Data Distribution Service (DDS) or other Ethernet based communication.
- Windows/Linux Cross Platform Development.
- Visual Studio 2022.
- CMake or similar build environment.
- Windows/Linux system configuration.
- CANbus/MilCAN/J1939 knowledge.
- Git version control.
- Youtrack/Jira issue and task tracking.
- MariaDB/MySQL databases.
- Boost, XML, JSON and cryptography.
- Qt6 GUI Development.
- Developing unit tests using a framework such as GoogleTest.
ADDITIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION: WE SEEK SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WHO HAVE WORKED IN A MILITARY / DEFENCE ENVIRONMENT / INDUSTRY WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR WHO ARE CAPABLE OF OBTAINING SECURITY CLEARANCE (SC LEVEL MINIMUM)
