Senior Software Engineer
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Job Description
Purpose of Position
We are looking for a versatile generalist software engineer who is excited about the opportunity to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team on a multitude of exciting projects.
Our projects are very diverse often greenfield and have huge opportunities for learning new technologies and skills. We move quickly and iteratively and pride ourselves in working tightly with our customers. If you are looking for a lively and communicative role in smart automation and robotics then please read on!
Because of the diverse nature of the work you will be doing we are looking for someone with good experience across a wide skillset. Breadth is more important than depth and an appreciation of good software engineering practices is more important than finding a specialist in any one area.
We dont have a preferred tech stack. Depending on the problem were trying to solve and the specific needs of the customer well use the right technology. Having said that in recent projects weve utilised these technologies:
- C# (with Core) to create a robotics orchestrator
- Python to write async web API based microservices image recognition
- React for frontend UIs
- C to implement low level algorithms and firmware
- MQTT for service-to-service communication
- Docker containerise and run services
- Azure for most cloud infrastructure
- Azure DevOps for project management repos and CI/CD
We are also looking for someone with a good level of experience with general software engineering practices and should have exposure to the following:
- Version control management with Git
- Code reviews and pair programming
- Test frameworks with at least an interest in TDD
- User stories and capturing requirements
- Iterative development and refactoring
As youll be working in a team of electrical and mechanical engineers we are really interested to hear of any experience or interests you have in other engineering disciplines.
Our team members have a variety of backgrounds
The people in our team come from backgrounds in robotics physics mathematics aerodynamics psychology embedded systems and computer science. Some have experience in large corporations other have only ever worked for Tharsus. One person loves pottery; another likes flying planes - were a varied bunch and thats important to us.
You should apply if
- youre a software developer with a passion to do new things
- the work were doing sounds exciting to you!
- you have experience getting new projects off the ground
- you enjoy working with customers to solve their problems
- you can break down technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- (bonus) you have people management or mentoring experience
Other Important Stuff
This role is a hybrid one with opportunity to work a couple days of the week at home. Its important that you can commit some time in our factory in Blyth as youll be working collaboratively with others on hardware.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
