Senior Software Engineer
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Job description
This role is hybrid, consisting of work from our offices and home, with home-working permitted most of the time and offices being used for meetings and team days. You will ideally be based in and around EITHER our Glasgow office OR Leicester office.
The Guardian Mobile solution is responsible for creating mobile solutions and mobile gateway servers for our UK Fire Service customers. Our core solution has been developed over the past 20 years, primarily as a DELPHI-based Widows Client for Panasonic Toughpads and as a DELPHI-based gateway server which connects to third party Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems and other third party systems.
This role will be responsible for working as a software engineer within a small, strong team of approximately 7 other software engineers, who range from senior to junior level. We are looking to supplement our existing team with someone who is a very strong software engineer, who will have had previous industry experience developing complex full stack software solutions.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will be an excellent programmer, likely with extensive existing experience of at least one general purpose language (such as Java or C#) but should be comfortable picking up and using new software languages as required. The candidate should have a strong understanding of the design patterns and concepts required to architect and build scalable, high performing, fault tolerant software solutions., * A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in commercial software engineering
- Full stack experience across a variety of technologies including front-end and back-end
- A strong understanding of software design patterns used for architecting and developing high performing, scalable software solutions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3) - which includes the need for a minimum of 3 years UK residency
Desirable:
- Previous experience building high performing scalable server applications using technologies such as Java or C#
- Previous experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications
- Previous working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)
Nice to have:
- Previous experience of developing web applications using HTML, CSS, React, etc.
- Previous experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications (such as Android and iOS) using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Objective C, or React Native.
- Previous experience of architecting and developing .net/Windows applications, with experience of Windows UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, WinUI, etc.)
Benefits & conditions
In return for your expertise, we'll support you in this new challenge with coaching and development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you'll get:
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
- Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
- 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
- Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Life assurance.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
- Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.
- Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
- Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
- Well known companies discount scheme.