Principal Software Engineer / Lead Developer Remote
Job description
What you’ll do?
As our Principal Software Engineer / Lead Developer you’ll run our bespoke development team. This role will be a combination of hands-on development and people management.
As our Principal Software Engineer / Lead Developer you’ll support a relatively junior team, so being able to coach on the technical side will be crucial. This team works on smaller little custom bitesize projects and there is scope to try new technologies or methods if appropriate. We encourage you to be creative.
Most of the projects are on train planning support, modelling and simulation activities – the latter being where you are artificially running the station to see impact from risks. You’ll build tools to report on the planning, validate plans and look at optimisation work.
The process will be 2 stages consisting of both technical and competency questioning. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please let a member of the team know.
Who you’ll be?
We want to make sure you’re set for success so the key skills we’re looking for in the role are below. We know not everyone ticks all the boxes and we’ll provide training on some of the areas if you’re the right person for the role.
Experience working with C#
Confident about training others. Experience in people management or mentoring will help.
Good software architectural skills as you’ll be leading projects and developing the big picture
Strong automated testing or TDD background will also help
What we’ll give you
You’ll be joining a close-knit team of 3 close with a really varied selection of work. There is scope to bring in new thoughts, new ideas and different ways of working.
We encourage collaboration both with colleagues and customers and have a supportive environment where innovation, fresh ideas and creative solutions are encouraged and shared.
You’ll join and start with a small team, but there are infinite growth opportunities to grow your own team, equally to develop and progress into roles across the group.
About us
We are a technology company and a leading provider of software and hardware products, and consultancy services for the rail industry. We also provide data capture, data analytics, and event transport planning and management services across the wider transport industry.
Technology makes it possible; people make it happen.
