Software Engineer - Embedded Systems

We are delighted to be supporting a Sheffield based, international manufacturing business with the recruitment of a Software Engineer - Embedded Systems.

Reporting to the Senior Electronics Design Engineer, your role includes the design, development and testing of software development and maintenance. You will identify issues and work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders (internally and externally) to support continuous improvement of existing products and processes.

You should be a practical, curious software engineer who enjoys solving real problems and learning new things as requirements evolve.

The role:

Develop, Maintain and problem solve the current aspects of software within the current product portfolio and future products.
Reduce time to market of new features, on time delivery
Improve response to failures/bugs
Produce maintainable, well-structured and well-documented code
Backend development
Frontend/UI work
Integrations and APIs
Automation and tooling
Cloud/infrastructure tasks
Embedded software and firmware development
Helping shape technical decisions
Working closely with Hardware, including microcontrollers, device communication and low level systems.

You:

Degree in Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related technical discipline
solid programming fundamentals
modern web technologies and UI frameworks
Python, C/C++, JavaScript and/or similar languages
Git and collaborative development workflows
databases and APIs
cloud platforms
embedded systems or firmware development
interest in both software and hardware environments
able to work independently and figure things out
comfortable working across different parts of a system
strong problem-solving skills
A good communicator at all levels with the proven ability of working as part of a team.
Exceptional analytical and proven solving skills
Self-motivated
Good time management with the ability to focus on task completion.

Experience of working in organisations with ISO
9001 quality management systems.
Good understanding of compliance related aspects of product software

Please apply for immediate consideration

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