Software Engineer

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 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.

We are entering a period of modernisation to our product stack and wish to ensure that we maintain support for our existing products and customers while continuing to innovate, refine and modernise our offerings. This includes the creation of new Android/iOS based applications while ensuring longevity for our existing applications.

The “Software Engineer” role will be responsible for working within a team of approximately 10 software engineers who design, develop and release these software solutions for our UK Fire Service customers. The post holder will be responsible for developing high quality, high performing software at a high velocity in accordance with the direction set by the Senior Manager of Software Engineering, working closely with our Product Manager for our UK Fire Mobile product.

The post holder will report to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering. The post holder will work alongside Senior Software Engineers and other Software Engineers. This post is suitable for graduate-level engineers or for those early in their career and the successful candidates will receive guidance and mentoring from the more senior members of the team.

Basic Requirements

Required:

• A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3).

Desirable:

• 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 developing web applications using HTML, CSS, React, etc.
• Previous experience of architecting and developing .net/Windows applications, with experience of Windows UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, WinUI, etc.)
• 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 solutions for emergency services agencies.
• Previous experience of working with DELPHI.

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.

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Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes