Data-Driven Software Engineer

1 month ago

Croydon, Greater London, United Kingdom Jane's Full time

Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make informed decisions with confidence. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities, order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.

By linking millions of assured data points, Janes' data model creates a framework of interconnected open-source defence intelligence. This allows customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment, delivering a more complete and accurate answer. With Janes, customers can utilise their scarce resources more effectively, making better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.

Job Purpose

Janes is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with expertise in data handling, search technologies, pipelines, and diverse data stores, such as Graph and NoSQL. As part of a full-stack agile unit with a backend focus, you will work from our offices in Croydon, contributing to the development of cutting-edge solutions. Your experience working with AWS cloud, OpenSearch, and graph technologies will be valuable assets in this role.

Your Key Responsibilities
  • Architect and develop solutions to ingest, transform, and serve data for internal purposes and customer requirements.
  • Collaborate closely with key customers, partners, project stakeholders, SMEs, and product owners to understand and meet customer needs.
  • Work within a DevOps environment, in an Agile team, to design and develop systems and products based on user requirements.
  • Participate in cross-functional squads including data engineers, software engineers, quality engineers, SMEs, and business stakeholders from Janes and partner/customer organisations.
  • Have a passion for data analysis and workflows, applying your skills to impact analysis, problem-solving, and gap analysis.
  • Act as a data evangelist, communicating how data inputs and outputs affect different groups and identifying areas where Janes can provide additional value.
  • Experience in architecting and developing ETL pipeline solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and serving, as well as orchestration of pipeline components (e.g., AWS Step Functions, Apache Airflow).
  • Good understanding of data modelling, algorithms, and data transformation techniques for working with data platforms.
  • Familiarity with cloud development practices (AWS/GCP/Azure) and API development (e.g., Express on EKS/ECS), as well as common cloud data engineering solutions and databases (e.g., AWS Lambda functions, AWS Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions).
  • Software engineering best practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, and infrastructure-as-code (particularly Terraform).
  • In-depth knowledge of search tooling (e.g., OpenSearch and ElasticSearch).
  • Familiarity with common databases (e.g., RDBMS and NoSQL), Graph Databases (such as Graph DB), and storage solutions.
  • Strong proficiency with Node.
  • Experience in Python programming/scripting.
  • SPARQL & C# knowledge would be beneficial.

About You

  • Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts clearly to various audiences.
  • A proactive self-starter who takes ownership and provides direction.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Team player with the ability to mentor and influence others.
  • Ability to learn and adapt modern technologies and applications.

Benefits and Perks

  • Estimated salary: £90,000 - £110,000 per annum, depending on experience.
  • 27 days of annual leave.
  • Healthy half day leave every six months for wellbeing.
  • Leave for study/volunteer/reserve forces.
  • Pension plan (6% employer contribution).
  • Private medical insurance – Vitality.
  • Maternity pay (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay).
  • Paternity pay (100% of basic salary for six weeks).
  • Life cover.
  • Access to GoodHabitz.
  • On-site gym access.

Location: Croydon Office.

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