Software Developer

Capgemini Engineering are currently in the process of recruiting software developers for the specialist business unit inside Altran that is concerned with providing software for big engineering companies - like Airbus, Network Rail and Rolls-Royce.

• Proven success in leading the production of quality engineering-oriented software as part of a team of developers, preferably for customers from range of domains (engineering domains a particular bonus).
• Being the primary point of communication for customers, reporting progress, and resolving problems.
• Mentoring more junior developers, undertaking regular code and design reviews and ensuring quality.
• Capturing and understanding customer requirements, and translating them into software design, code and automated unit tests.
• Holding technical authority, and responsibility for technical delivery of, with a high degree of autonomy.
• Take an active role in decisions on recruitment and team organisation decision.
• Supporting team leads in driving technical sales- and bid- processes, defining solutions and writing proposals.

• Experienced in technically leading projects of a range of team sizes and budgets
• Familiarity with multiple mainstream software languages and technologies.
• Experience of high-level technical design of software solutions
• Defining and implementing software testing strategies
• User Interface development
• Experienced in using standard tools: IDEs, SVN/Git, CI, Coverage, Static Analysis etc.
• Confident in using more advanced language features and libraries.
• Familiar with the application of modern software development principles (OO, design patterns, etc.)
• An understanding of modern software development practices (DevOps, Agile, Scrum, TDD, XP, etc.).
• Excellent customer interaction skills. You will be speaking to the customer from day 1: asking the right people the right questions and knowing how and what to communicate.
• Experience of extracting requirements and understanding them from the customer's perspective, as well as that of a software developer.
• Able to learn new concepts, ideas and domains, to the point of being confident in actively using them, often with limited time to do so.
• An understanding of current and future software/computing technologies: cloud-computing SaaS, multi-threading, modern web-technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and effective at applying them in a technical environment.
• Educated to degree level (or higher) in a computer science, engineering or numerate scientific discipline, or equivalent experience

Bonus skills (non-essential)

• Experience of data systems, analytics, data aggregation and visualisation
• Able to leverage the most up-to-date cloud-based technologies
• Ability to develop UX/UI design using modern libraries and tools
• Experienced at applying modern DevOps approaches (CI, pipelines, etc.)
• Any skills or interests applicable to the engineering or aeronautics domains.