Senior Software Engineer

Location: Almondsbury

Company Description

⚡️💡 About Assystem

Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.

Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions

In line with our 2030 Business Plan, we are delivering a major enterprise transformation initiative - the Assystem Transformation Programme (ATP) - to streamline and harmonise business operations across all geographies. This includes optimising our processes, redesigning and redeveloping our Integrated Management System, and moving from document-centric to data-centric ways of working.

Job Description

🚀 The Job Mission

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Digital Excellence Centre (DEC) UK.

You will help design, build and support secure, maintainable software products and reusable components that improve performance, decision-making and delivery across the business and for our clients.

This is a hands-on role in a small, senior team, with real scope to influence technical direction, engineering standards and solution design. You will work across a varied technology environment, contribute from discovery through to production support, and collaborate closely with colleagues in the UK, India and, where relevant, France.

We are not looking for someone who knows every tool in our stack. We are looking for strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgement, adaptability and a practical approach to solving problems.

What you will do

Work closely with senior stakeholders to understand requirements  
Design, build, test, deploy and support software applications, services and reusable components  
Produce pragmatic technical designs that balance quality, security and maintainability  
Work across back end services, integrations and user-facing applications  
Contribute to engineering standards through code review, testing, CI/CD and documentation  
Design secure APIs and integrations across digital products, enterprise systems and data services  
Work closely with data engineers on APIs, events and data contracts  
Support and mentor others through pairing, review and day-to-day collaboration  
Help make sensible technology choices that keep solutions supportable over time  

Qualifications

🛠 Essential Skills  

8 years experience
Practical use of, or strong interest in use of AI-assisted development tools in a responsible delivery environment
Experience delivering production software end to end, working closely with stakeholders  
Front end, back end development experience  
Experience designing APIs and integrating with enterprise systems and data services  
Good understanding of software design principles and modern engineering practice

Experience with automated testing and CI/CD  
Experience working with relational databases  
Familiarity with database and caching technologies  
Understanding of secure coding and modern authentication and authorisation  
Experience delivering software in cloud-hosted environments, e.g. Azure  
Ability to work effectively across a mixed technology estate  
Strong communication skills and experience working in collaborative teams
Experience mentoring others through review, pairing and practical support  ✔️ Desired Skills

Experience with container tooling  
Familiarity with Microsoft tooling, including Power Platform

Experience with Office document automation, including Excel, Word and PDF generation  Security and eligibility

Depending on project requirements, you may need to meet UK residency criteria and achieve UK security clearance, such as BPSS and potentially SC.

Additional Information

You do not need deep expertise in all of these, but you should be comfortable learning and contributing across a varied environment. Our current stack includes, but is not limited to:
C#/.NET, SPython FastAPI/Django, Type Script, Angular, Vue.js, Postgre

SQL, Mongo

DB, Redis/Valkey,…