Senior Software Engineer

Contract Senior Software Engineer

C#/.Net

Out of scope of IR35

Description:

The software engineer will be developing Control Systems and related applications for my clients medical devices. This control systems software suite includes a service application, factory test software and provides an interface between the external management software and the Real Time control software. The role will be working in a Scrum TEAM as part of an Agile Release Train following Scaled Agile SAFe. Software quality is a key responsibility in a safety critial environment.

Responsibilities:

• Define, design, develop and maintain applications and the control system.
• Full stack development from desktop-based UI development down to messaging and storage solutions, with client /server aspects.
• Maintaining and enhancing Software quality metrics including test coverage and code maintainability through code walkthroughs, testing at all level of the V model and attention to detail. Ensuring the code and the system is well tested and of sufficient quality for full solution testing.
• Ensure that all products are developed in accordance with the applicable published development process and documentation is created in line with this.
• Contribute as needed to enhance our CI/CD pipeline and test automation environments, enabling fast and effective delivery and deployment.
• Be open, honest and respectful with your opinion, sharing technical insight to innovate and improve our products and ways of working.
• Maintain a professional approach, attending and contributing to team meetings as required, and completing a timesheet.
• Continuous improvement through training and learning to keep up to date with industry trends and standards in the healthcare industry and the wider software engineering domain.
• Working as part of a scrum team to not only deliver your own tasks but assist others where priorities require it, or impediments exist.
• Participation in safety analysis, raising of safety issues and involvement in creation of tracible hazard mitigation.

Relevant knowledge and skills:
Mandatory:

• Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Fluent in English with strong communication skills.
• Full stack development using C#/.NET, WPF platforms and C++ on Windows.
• Unit testing and Experience of CI/CD.
• Object Oriented design.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Structured and professional approach to engineering
• Knowledge and understanding of software engineering disciplines, practices, and techniques.
• Understanding and experience of the overall SDLC for application development
• Understanding and experience of Agile

Advantageous:

• SAFe methodologies.
• Previous experience of Medical Devices (or other regulated/safety critical areas)
• Real time and Embedded development experience.
• Automated testing
• VMware
• Domain Driven Design practices
• Asynchronous programming and event driven systems using Message queues
• Cloud DevOps.
• Containerisation (e.g. Docker)

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