Software Engineer

Role Overview

A Software Engineer with a passion for quality, and proven experience of full stack software development and design, is required for a variety of digital projects being delivered for Jaguar Land Rover in Manchester. We are looking for great engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.

• Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative start-up environment, but also enjoy the security, resources and influence of an established and successful organisation?
• Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?
• Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow developers?

You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development capability within Jaguar Land Rover.

Reporting to a Senior Software Engineer and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be a valued member of the Global Digital Development Centre team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives, with a focus on testability, robustness, and performance for exciting new projects. You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and expected to use your passion for technology to quickly learn on the job.

Key Responsibilities

• Software design and code development to internal standards and practises
• Contribute to development of parts of the software system
• Contribute to CICD and DevOps practises
• Support all agile development ceremonies
• Contribute to Issue investigation and resolution
• Implementation of all applicable testing for software
• Contribute to code reviews where appropriate

Skills

Our Software Engineers should have:

• 2+ years experience with Java, Spring Boot
• Experience with AWS ideally including Infrastructure as code
• Experience with container frameworks, Docker / Kubernetes

We are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:

• 2+ years experience developing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications
• Experience with asynchronous technologies such as MQ / MQTT / Kafka
• Experience with API development and technologies
• Experienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development
• Experience with greenfield / exploratory development
• Experience with deploying and supporting live applications including Ops processes and bug fixing.
• Python, Bash or other script languages.
• Experience with Microservices architectures and serverless deployments.
• Experience with source code management and version control (GitLab)
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
• Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to learn fast and to drive your own development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The following skills and experience are nice to have:

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such Datadog
• Familiarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a NoSql DB especially DocumentDB
• Experience with Kafka, HiveMQ, ElasticSearch
• Infrastructure as code experience using CDK / terraform