Sr. Software Engineer

Job Purpose

To lead, design, develop, test and maintain software to project cost, quality & timescales.

Estimating tasks and executing work packages within defined scope and budget.

Conduct process analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Design, Architect, Plan & estimate project work.
• Evaluating design options against technical & project criteria.
• Lead and report progress of all technical activities against target to stakeholders.
• Active participation in design reviews.
• Design, simulate, test & record results to verify requirements.
• Work with appropriate software development tools for source control, issue and task tracking applications as appropriate.
• Keep design records of software development in line with process requirements.
• Acquire an in-depth understanding of the product under development.
• Follows policies, processes and standards to achieve excellence the discipline.
• Organising personal workload including managing multiple tasks.
• Seek to improve the software development process
• Actively communicate with other members of the local software team, other disciplines and the wider Smiths Detection community.
• Responsible for personal health, safety of yourself & others.
• Attend training to develop relevant knowledge & skills.
• Ensures adherence to business policies, Legal requirements, Ethics.
• 1st or 2:1 degree in a relevant discipline
• 4+ years industrial experience
• Technical team leader experience
• Understanding of cybersecurity issues and security scan tool
• Experience in Linux application programming – multithreaded
• Strong understanding about Inter-process communication.
• Solid C++
• Experience in shell scripting
• Experience in UI programming using QT
• Experience in writing Documentation
• Experience of developing for RTOS, Bare Metal or Linux embedded target environments
• Experienced in following formal development processes