Software Engineer

This isn't just about writing great code; it's about advocating practices that push high quality engineering. You'll be in a team reflecting on what went well and what they could have done better and turn those into learning actions. You will take pride in the solutions you and your team develop.

You'll be passionate about learning and continuous improvement, both for yourself and for your team. When you learn something new you will want to share it with others. You'll organise and encourage learning opportunities for you and others and will actively advocate the growth of the knowledge of those around you.

The role

You will be one of our key contributors who guide and foster innovation by developing leading-edge products that span from the IoT edge to cloud applications.

You will work collaboratively to solve interesting and challenging problems in a cross functional team with other engineering disciplines including Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Platform Engineers, Systems Engineers and Hardware Engineers.

The software team is missioned to build operational insight, control and analytics applications that manage our core connectivity services. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key cloud and edge device initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions.

You also have opportunities to go through the whole lifecycle of products and services, are encouraged to participate in each phase, each part of the projects and have the whole picture of what you are working on.

As a Software Engineer who is passionate about technology, you will use the most effective and applicable technologies to create robust and scalable software that runs in the cloud or on the edge.

You will work on a variety of challenges towards product or solution deliverables, often highly complex and based around mission critical systems that combines capabilities like data streaming, aggregation, asset management, monitoring, reporting and visualisation, through clean and consistent coding.

Do you have experience in Web services?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages.

• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.

• Experience and understanding of building products on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure and GCP and micro services.

• Experience in building data pipelines and data storage solutions

• Familiarity with designing, developing and creating RESTful web services and APIs.

• Familiarity with message brokers.

• Familiarity with CICD pipelines and test automation.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)

• Understanding of containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Basic understanding of security principals

• Good understanding of agile or lean development practices.

• Ability to write and speak in English fluently.

Desirable & Development Areas

• Experience with GoLang and Python.

• Experience in designing data pipelines and data storage solutions for high throughput

• Experience with data engineering tools (e.g. Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Kinesis, Snowflake, Apache Airflow)

• Experience with Time Series databases.

• Experience with message brokers like Kinesis, SQS

• Familiarity with IoT protocols (MQTT)

• Familiarity with Helm charts and Kubernetes manifest management

• Experience with front-end technology (e.g. Angular, React).

• Experience in building data pipelines and data streaming applications.

• Experience in database/application scaling, optimisation and monitoring.

Why apply?

• Continuous Improvement is built into your mind set and you constantly think of ways to improve for you and your team

• Playing a key role in building a robust and scalable software architecture alongside product development will encourage you to deliver your best work

• Engineering excellence isn't just another buzz word for you it is something you advocate at all levels of the organization

• Collaboration is something you enjoy, working with cross-functional teams including non-engineers

In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.

At Applied we firmly believe it's the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We're also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we're open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.

• Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues).

• Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.

• Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.

• Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary

• Opportunity to join the Applied Pension Plan

• Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.

• Electric car scheme - opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful competition of their probationary period.

At Motion Applied, we're accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future. Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance. We're at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness. We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable. This role is in the Connected Intelligence Business unit. Our products have been developed from Formula One technology to provide connectivity services and analytics to a range of customers, primarily in Transportation, but also in Industrial and Motorsport environments., Motion Applied (formerly McLaren Applied) are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We're looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.