Software Engineer - Aberdeen (Hybrid Working)
Salary: £45k - £50k (Flexibility for the right candidate) + Pensions + Healthcare + flexible working hours + Benefits
The Company:
Our client is a highly successful international oil service company with a strong focus on research & development in electronics, software and mechanical engineering. The company have been in business for over 30 years and their success is built on offshore experience informing the design criteria and delivering rugged and complete solutions for the downhole environment. Jointly founded by a Doctor of Physics, the company is underpinned and has continually held strong relationships with leading institutes of technology throughout the world. Their employees understand the nature of offshore challenges, are informed by years of first-hand experience and as a consequence deliver exemplary support.
The Role:
This position is for an application/systems developer. This role includes a great deal of variety, creative input, and the opportunity to work with many different technologies. The successful applicant will work within the company's core team of Software Engineers, dealing with all aspects of software development. Their primary activity will be to design and implement various applications for the purposes of interfacing to the business equipment and processing information recovered from that equipment.
Principal Duties:
- To work as part of the software development team
- To design solutions for acquiring data, controlling equipment, logging and analysing results
- To provide support to users
- To capture and document software requirements and procedures
- To work at client sites (onshore and offshore) when necessary
- To participate in technical reviews such as code review and document reviews
Knowledge and Experience:
- Familiarity with Windows development using Visual Studio .Net (C and/or VB) and C/C++ programming languages
- Technical background - BSc or equivalent in Computer Science or related Engineering/Scientific discipline
- Experience of Windows Forms (Winforms) applications Awareness of Agile software development methodologies or equivalent
- Strong knowledge and experience of software release processes
- The ability to capture & document requirements
- Must be able to communicate well in written and spoken English
- Experienced in using source control systems such as Subversion/Git
- Familiar with continuous integration/ continuous delivery system.
- A good understanding of interfacing techniques, and communication protocols would be advantageous
As a Software Engineer the candidate:
- Must have excellent software development skills, good communication skills and the ability to implement ideas as part of a team
- Must have experience in software architecture and be well versed in developing and/or contributing to complex projects which pull together multiple different systems
- Will have a minimum of five years experience within a software development environment, or demonstrable excellence in their role
- Would benefit from experience of interfacing with hardware, embedded development, and protocols
- Will be involved in whole software lifecycle, from capturing requirements, developing code, controlling equipment, analysing results, supporting users of the final software, and the practical application of the results
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