Job Vacancy Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £46,288 - £51,548 depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• Completing allocated requirements, design and implementation, and testing tasks to a high standard, within scheduling and estimates
• Software development of solutions
• Testing of completed functionality
• Adhering to project processes and software development practices
• Accurately reporting on progress and providing feedback to team members and leadership
• Supporting System Test and Integration Activities
• Producing appropriate technical documentation
• Participating in peer reviews of own and others' work products
• Configuring completed work ready for testing
• Supporting and mentoring junior Software Engineers

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree in a relevant STEM subject - Software Engineering, IT, Computing, Physics or Maths
• You should have an awareness and understanding of:
  • The full software development lifecycle, from requirements & design through to delivery
  • Software development processes (e.g. design, coding, unit testing), experience of development tools (e.g. UML design tools, code IDEs)
  • You should have experience in at least one of the following:
  • Desktop-based applications (Java and Eclipse RCP or C#/C++)
  • Web-oriented applications and services (Java/C#, JSP, HTML, CSS, Apache middleware)
  • Business intelligence/analytics tools and techniques (ETL, SQL, Python)
  • Windows or Linux target environments
  • Object-oriented design/development including UML

Desirable:

• Supervisory or mentoring experience

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The team:

This is a very exciting time to join our team in Filton as a Senior Software Engineer. You will be working on world beating aircraft products, creating cutting edge software for our hardware systems and be involved in the entire lifecycle of a product, from design and development to integration. Working closely with systems and test engineers, you will enable the development of complex real-world systems that have to perform perfectly every time, as they will be used in real world combat. This could be on our Eurofighter Typhoon, our aircraft simulators, The Joint Strike fighter (F-35) or even helping define the future of air defence on Tempest.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 2nd October 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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