Description
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Hybrid (Malton, UK)
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Description:
We are in search of a dynamic and motivated Lead Software Engineer to join our team. As a Lead Software Engineer your responsibilities encompass the entire software development life cycle, from design and coding to maintenance and deployment.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter, highly motivated and possess the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
As the successful individual grows, there will be opportunity to add further responsibility and ownership, focused on driving innovation and products to meet the demands and needs of the industry.
Responsibilities:
Design and develop secure desktop and web applications for real time systems.
Create applications using coding best practices and internal ePS coding guidelines.
Strong project time management and prioritization skills.
Communicate questions, concerns, status and provide recommendations to managers.
Ability to estimate projects accurately, build project schedules based on level of effort, communicate deliverables, document updates and stay on schedule.
Liaise with key business and technology teams (understanding our business and marketing goals) to ensure stylized, integrated and aligned solutions are created.
Present new design and architecture to various stakeholders across the business to provide reasoning and benefits it would bring to the product portfolio.
Unit testing and documentation.
Help maintain code quality by being part of regular code reviews.
Act as a mentor to the R&D team of developers.
Regular visits to customer sites for software testing, deployment and upgrades.
Ensure you and the team are always working in a safe manner, adhering to the customers and ePS H&S rules and Risk Assessments.
Skills:
7+ years’ experience of desktop application/Object Oriented development using MVC frameworks required.
Solid experience of developing applications using C, C++, C#, Visual Studio, MS SQL Server is essential.
Good understanding of socket based and serial communication.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as git.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline, automated testing platforms and unit tests.
Familiarity of working within a scrum/agile team.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with customers.
Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet project deadlines.
Requirements:
Willingness to travel. This role involves traveling to sites, sometimes on weekends. These trips can vary between one day site visits up to two weeks installations. Extra pay and expenses are provided.
A clean driving license.
A valid passport.