Senior Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Huntingdon - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Starting from 62k salary dependant on skills and experience
Permanent / 37 hours per week / Full-time (with flexibility for part-time working)
Huntingdon or Lincoln office (depending on your location) - Hybrid
Design and deliver software that truly matters.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Anglian Water youll be a technical leader and mentor helping shape the design development and evolution of high-quality software products and platforms. Youll work closely with product owners designers and engineers to deliver secure scalable solutions that meet customer needs and business goals.
Youll lead through influencesupporting and enabling teams with technical guidance promoting autonomy and driving engineering excellence. With a strong focus on clean code robust architecture performance and reliability youll tackle complex challenges and help set technical direction.
This role combines hands-on engineering with collaboration innovation and continuous learning giving you the opportunity to make a real impact while helping others grow.
What youll be doing
The Senior Software Engineer will design build and maintain high-quality software solutions that support Anglian Waters products and platforms. They will work closely with product owners designers architects and engineers to shape requirements influence architecture and design decisions and deliver secure scalable and reliable systems.
The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership. Youll write clean efficient code review and improve existing solutions troubleshoot production issues and optimise performance while also setting standards promoting best practices and mentoring other engineers. Collaboration code quality and maintainability will be central to everything you do.
Youll continuously develop your own skills explore new technologies and contribute innovative ideas to improve how software is built and delivered. Through problem-solving knowledge sharing and a strong focus on quality youll help raise engineering standards and support the ongoing evolution of Anglian Waters digital capability.
What does it take to be a Senior Software Engineer
Were looking for a confident and collaborative Senior Software Engineer who communicates clearly and can effectively advocate for ideas and solutions with both technical and non-technical audiences. Youll bring strong analytical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to get to the root of complex issues and deliver pragmatic solutions.
Youll work well as part of a team building strong relationships and collaborating effectively across disciplines while also being comfortable taking ownership and operating independently in ambiguous or fast-moving environments. A working knowledge of service management processes including change incident and problem management will help you support resilient well-run systems.
Experience or understanding of water industry standards and regulations is advantageous along with a mindset that values adaptability accountability and continuous improvement.
Skills and experience:
Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a relevant field OR equivalent professional experience.
Recognised certification in relevant competency
Experience working cross functionally with both internal and external teams
Experience identifying and supporting delivery of both technical and process improvements in a digital engineering environment
Proven technical leadership experience focused on training mentoring and coaching engineers
The ability to lead by example demonstrating a strong work ethic technical skills and problem solving abilities.
Experience working in an agile development team where youve delivered incremental small slices and are comfortable with responding to meet user needs
Demonstrable extensive experience in Software Engineering with a strong track record of supporting delivery of complex projects and driving technical innovation.
Advanced proficiency in query language(s) (e.g. SQL) and large databases along with industry best practices.
Advanced knowledge of a programming language (examples include: Javascript HTML CSS C# YAML Python PowerShell JSON and BICEP)
Advanced proficiency in a programming language specifically for data manipulation (examples include: Python R Scala)
Experience working with Service Management processes specifically Change Incident Event Configuration and Problem Management
Whats in it for you
Private healthcare and physiotherapy
24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
26 days annual leave (rising with service)
Competitive pension scheme Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6% (up to 18% combined)
Bonus scheme
Flexible benefits and working culture
Life Assurance (8 salary) and Personal Accident cover
Enhanced family leave policies
Great discounts and perks
Why apply
This is an opportunity to work on software that really matters. At Anglian Water the systems you build help deliver essential services support critical infrastructure and improve outcomes for customers and communities.
Youll work in collaborative product-led teams using modern engineering practices where your ideas and technical leadership will genuinely shape solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer youll have the chance to influence architecture and standards mentor others and raise the bar for engineering quality across teams.
The role offers space to growthrough continuous learning exposure to new technologies and involvement in complex meaningful problemswhile working in an environment that values autonomy collaboration and innovation.
If youre looking for impact technical challenge and the opportunity to help others succeed this is a role where you can make a real difference.
Closing date: 23/02/2026
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Senior IC
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About Company
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