Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platform Team

Contract

Inside IR35

Rate – 600 P/D - 700 P/D

6 Months Initially

Wilmslow Based – 1 - 2 day a week onsite

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work in one of the Cloud platform teams, playing a key role in developing software which makes a real impact to peoples’ lives

The team you''ll join are currently completing the development of the suite of micro-services (e.g. Tenancy Admin, Notifications) written in C# and built on the AWS architecture that will comprise our first Cloud Platform, due live later in the year. Many other initiatives are being worked on to support the new platform, such as developing monitoring using DataDog, security hardening using GitHub Actions, introducing Playwright for our automation testing. 

As a Principal Software Engineer within the Cloud platform, you would be part of the Informatics group producing software that is used by people worldwide for specialist measurement and scientific analysis.

Your main responsibilities would include:

• Designing, developing and/or maintaining all aspects of software developed within the Cloud platform team
• Collaborating with stakeholders on software and technical issues.
• Acting as technical expert for coding, process and best practices (e.g. adherence to Definition of Done) and effectively communicate this to the team
• Coaching and mentoring of more junior team members.

We are looking for the following skills

• Extensive knowledge and proven experience as a software developer, with exposure to elements of our back-end technology stack (C#, .Net)
• Good experience working with Amazon Web Services, Microservices, API development
• Knowledge and application of software engineering practices (e.g. Unit testing, TDD, CI/CD, SOLID, BDD etc.) and experience working as part of an agile delivery team.

• Continuous delivery, with pipelines implemented in Kubernetes, Docker

• Front-End JavaScript Frameworks, especially Angular is advantageous
• Experience implementing and maintaining Datadog
• Experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), with Gherkin & SpecFlow
• Atlassian Jira, Confluence & JFrog Artifactory
• Ideally some software security best practices and implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)
• Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices). Not essential.

Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platform Team