Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Surrey
£c75,000

Purpose of the Role

The purpose of the senior Software Engineer is to create, maintain and release high quality software to

schedule, in accordance with Company standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• The purpose of the senior Software Engineer is the design, coding, debugging, testing and maintenance of software for embedded applications encompassing both low-level microprocessor code as well as higher level software designs running within an embedded operating system environment
• This will be undertaken alongside other technical activities while working with hardware and software engineers to deliver specific project goals derived from future product requirements
• Responsibilities will include the development and implementation of application logic, peripheral drivers, protocols, human-machine interfaces and documentation of the same
• A key element of the role will be the delivery of software within agreed timescales and to budget
• The right candidate will be capable of designing and delivering robust code.
• Demonstration of competence in using C is essential as is embedded
• programming experience of both low level and high level code

Outline of Competencies:

• Experience of developing software through entire lifecycle.
• Ability to work independently without need for close supervision.
•  Ability to analyse process or tools to propose improvements where applicable.

Qualifications and Experience required:

• Team working ability and drive to deliver on time
• C experience in an embedded environment
•  Experience of embedded processors and real-time operating systems
• Experience of interfacing with hardware devices and peripherals
• Solid understanding of software development life-cycles and processes
• Experience of requirement analysis, software design and software architecture
• Experience with source control tools such as SubVersion and Git
•  Behavioural: self-starting, adaptable, problem solving

 Desirable:

•  C++ experience in an embedded environment
•  Object Oriented Design and Programming experience
• Familiarity with desktop application, GUI/event-based design
• Knowledge of issue-tracking tools, such as Jira.
• Knowledge of releasing software to Production
• Knowledge of DO-178 would be advantageous

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