Software Engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as a Software Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting and new career challenge
- Day-to-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
- It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure and robust solutions.
You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that're often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
In addition, you’ll be:
- Producing high-quality, complex and critical software to add value to our business
- Working in permanent teams on the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
- Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capabilities
- Designing, creating, testing and implementing our working code
- Moving across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
The skills you'll need
You’ll need a background in software engineering, software design and architecture and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. Having Apigee API gateway experience would be advantageous.
Furthermore, you’ll need:
- Knowledge of how to work with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
- Coding experience in multiple programming languages
- An understanding of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies
- A background of solving highly-complex, analytical and numerical problems
- Experience of implementing programming best practices around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.
