Software Engineer

This company, specialising in electronic hardware and software development, is located in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. The successful candidate will be working within a small company environment to help develop radar systems and related software and hardware products for the traffic safety/management, ITS and smart cities industries.

Tasks will feature different types of software development, including embedded software, PC applications, Android applications, internal IT systems.

Benefits & Opportunities:

The successful candidate will work for a company with a rich history in software and hardware engineering. The company has an exciting product development roadmap and the candidate will play a crucial role in delivering new products to market. In addition, the company offers a flexible and modern working environment where engineers are granted the creative freedom and independence they need with unique opportunities to work on the forefront of technology and confront engineering challenges daily. This is a rewarding role, with excellent prospects in terms of job security and progression.

Starting salary is commensurate with experience and will be increased over time based on performance and suitability in the role.

Desirable Skills
- Strong knowledge of C, C++, Python languages.
- Embedded software development experience using microcontrollers.
- Experience using Qt, Keil and Visual Studio development environments.
- Can work responsibly and independently without continuous guidance to create working systems that meet project requirements and timescales.
- Able to manage multiple project workloads
- Positive attitude towards documentation, testing and debugging with experience using JIRA (or similar) internal issue tracking platforms.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- Passion for technology, Research & Development and problem solving.
- Awareness of engineering challenges & ability to work in co-ordination with other software and hardware engineers.
- Efficient and well-organised code development skills are required.
- Awareness of Agile working principles.
 
Qualifications/Experience Required:

Candidates with an Undergraduate degree in a Computer Science or a STEM field will be looked upon favourably. However, a university degree is not essential. An adept candidate with hands-on experience, a portfolio of projects and/or good levels of prior work experience and problem-solving skills, would be equally likely to get accepted into this position.

The company encourages all potential candidates with an interest in this role to apply today, no matter their background.

Interview Process:
The company director will reach out to a shortlist of candidates for an informal telephone interview, after which you will then be invited to our premises to discuss the role in a more detailed manner. A decision will be made at a later date as to the success of your application. A probation period of 3-months will apply for the successful candidate.