Lead Software Engineer

7 days ago

Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom Matchtech Full time
Job Description

Company Overview

Matchtech is a global communications company that has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries around the world communicate - even in the hardest-to-reach places.

We are growing rapidly and looking for passionate, innovative professionals to join our team. You'll work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and continuous learning.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead our software engineers and work on the development of Cyber and Information Assurance projects.

The successful candidate will be an experienced software engineer who can operate as a key player in the design, development, and test of software systems, as well as lead a team of software developers. Approximately 20% of the role will be related to line management duties.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyzing software requirements, high-level architecture design, low-level detailed design, implementation, test, and integration.
  • Generation of estimates and assisting with the planning process.
  • Line management of a team of engineers, including career development and mentoring.
  • Leading the team to deliver, assisting with design issues, and supervising progress.
  • Ensuring software developed within the team is of high quality and follows the defined development processes.
  • Update and refinement of software development methodologies and tools.

Requirements

  • Ideal candidate will be qualified to degree-level or equivalent experience in a Physics or Engineering-based subject, such as Electronics, Hardware, Computer Science, Software, or Systems Engineering.
  • Full life-cycle software development experience.
  • Recent experience using C or C++ in embedded applications, experience targeting PC environments as an advantage.
  • A sound understanding of operating system concepts such as multi-threading, process scheduling, inter-process communication, memory management, and I/O.
  • Scripting expertise with bash, python, or similar.
  • Proven experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and programming skills.
  • Configuration management and version control experience, e.g., GitHub.
  • Previous experience of leading within a software development program, including the mentoring or leading of other software developers.

Desirable

  • Experience in the Defence/Aerospace or safety-regulated environment would be advantageous.
  • Design for Security.
  • An understanding of Digital security technology.
  • Continuous integration, unit test, and static analysis.
  • x86 architecture, hardware programming, and device driver models.
  • Implementation of Graphical User Interfaces.
  • NVMe.
  • Experience of developing for microcontrollers, ideally RISC-V.
  • Experience of developing encryption or security products.
  • Networking technologies, network security, and network programming.
  • Requirements analysis, capture, and management using IBM Rational DOORS.
  • Proven C++ programming experience (including the Standard Template Library) on Linux and/or Windows platforms.
  • RUST knowledge.
  • Familiarity with cross-compilation toolchains and on-target debugging.

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