Software Engineer

It’ll be your responsibility to apply widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines.

You’ll also:

• Support the design and development of reusable libraries and application programming interfaces for use across the organisation
• Support the design and development of software that is amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments
• Support the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams
• Deliver software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services
• Write unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you’ll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, and experience of developing software in a SOA or micro-services paradigm. You should also have development experience in a programming language, and experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling.

You’ll also need:

• A background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance
• Experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
• Experience of working in an environment where products have to be delivered to specific timescales