Senior Software Engineer – UK

Job Description

Competitive salary and benefits package, including a pension scheme and private medical insurance

We are seeking a passionate senior software engineer to help our scientists and mechanical engineers to develop our industry changing platform.

You will work through the entire software development engineering life-cycle, taking concepts into workable and testable software and support the software system build and production. You will have a lot of hands-on opportunities working with our embedded controller boards interfacing with electro-mechanical hardware peripherals.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads software programmes for embedded systems development using C++ and C
• Experience designing and implementing software quality patterns and practices (continuous integration, static analysis, unit testing, integrated testing)
• Experience interfacing software with hardware peripherals such as GPIO, ADC/DAC, I2C/SPI, UART/Serial protocol.
• Software testing experience including writing automated test scripts
• Experience of developing API’s to control bespoke electronic equipment
• Proficient with source control management repositories and CM practices

Experience

• A high-level of competence, integrity and communication
• Ability to take requirements from non-software scientists, design a solution and explain back to them what you are proposing in non-software language that they will understand.
• Practical pragmatic results-oriented mindset
• Passionate about wanting to work on products that impact the world positively

Skills

• Ability to be agile and work in a start-up environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills – able to take complex software concepts and propose them in non-software language to colleagues
• Ability to work quickly and accurately with a strong focus on attention to detail
• Takes initiative when required and keeps others informed of decisions
• Proven ability to engage constructively and collaboratively with colleagues at all levels across different departments to deliver objectives
• Passionate about wanting to make a difference in patient outcomes