Staff Software Engineer

Job summary

Grade G Responsible for delivering software / platform engineering activities (depending on specialism), using advanced technical capabilities to fully understand user requirements, acting as the lead for the design, development and maintenance of a software system / infrastructure platform, and assisting in creating the vision to maximize value from current and emerging technologies. Specialisms: Software Engineering; Platform Engineering.

Key Accountabilities:

• Working with users and business analysts to understand requirements
• Designing, developing, and testing custom software applications
• Supporting and maintaining your software. We believe in DevOps – you build it, you run it!
• Monitoring and applying emerging technologies
• Mentoring and technical leadership of less experienced developers.

Desirable Education : Computer Science or other technical (e.g. Physics, Engineering) degree or equivalent commercial experience
Desirable Experience and Capability
Years of experience: 12-15 years, with a minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience.

Required Criteria

• Validated experience and deep skill in one or more of Java, C#, JavaScript/Node.js
• Willingness and ability to learn, to become skilled in at least one more programming language on top of your existing skillset
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including design, security, design patterns for extensible and reliable code, automated unit and functional testing, CI/CD and telemetry
• Demonstrated understanding of modern technologies like Cloud native, containers, serverless

Preferred Criteria

• User story definition
• Application Support
• Ideally, you have proven experience in most of these technologies:
• Azure and/or AWS
• Azure DevOps/Git/GitHub
• RESTful APIs
• One or more dev language: Node.js/Javascript, C#, Java
• Deep understanding of automated testing (unit, functional, integration, e2e)
• Container technologies (EKS, AKS, OpenShift, docker) and Serverless
• DevOps principles – you build it, you run it!
• Monitoring and telemetry tools
• Agile methodologies

Key Accountabilities:

• Working with users and business analysts to understand requirements
• Designing, developing, and testing custom software applications
• Supporting and maintaining your software. We believe in DevOps – you build it, you run it!
• Monitoring and applying emerging technologies
• Mentoring and technical leadership of less experienced developers.

Desirable Education : Computer Science or other technical (e.g. Physics, Engineering) degree or equivalent commercial experience
Desirable Experience and Capability
Years of experience: 12-15 years, with a minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience.

Required Criteria

• Validated experience and deep skill in one or more of Java, C#, JavaScript/Node.js
• Willingness and ability to learn, to become skilled in at least one more programming language on top of your existing skillset
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including design, security, design patterns for extensible and reliable code, automated unit and functional testing, CI/CD and telemetry
• Demonstrated understanding of modern technologies like Cloud native, containers, serverless

Preferred Criteria

• User story definition
• Application Support
• Ideally, you have proven experience in most of these technologies:
• Azure and/or AWS
• Azure DevOps/Git/GitHub
• RESTful APIs
• One or more dev language: Node.js/Javascript, C#, Java
• Deep understanding of automated testing (unit, functional, integration, e2e)
• Container technologies (EKS, AKS, OpenShift, docker) and Serverless
• DevOps principles – you build it, you run it!
• Monitoring and telemetry tools
• Agile methodologies