Software Engineer

Role Title: Software Engineer Location: Hybrid 60% office-40% Remote - Sheffield

Duration: 30/11/2026 Rate 650 (Inside)

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description: The Software Engineering job is highly technical and hands-on, providing leadership by example. The role enhances the engineering team's capabilities by driving the implementation of effective technical solutions that maximize customer value. The role serves as a technical consultant with deep cross-service expertise and acts as a strategist, influencing engineering business decisions and processes, while also providing leadership in technical disciplines, competencies, and professions. Additionally, the role develops architectures, standards, and tools to guide the engineering function. The PE may be an individual contributor (IC) or lead a small team of other engineers.

The Software Engineering job leads the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development, operation, maintenance, and retirement of software applications, systems, and platforms - encompassing devOps engineering discipline and ensuring software works, is reliable, scalable, and efficient. The job will lead the end-to-end delivery of the software development life cycle - expert level understanding of functional and non-functional requirements, software design, development, technical testing, software release, and production support activities.

The role demands strong expertise in agile methodologies, with a deep understanding of continuous delivery and DevSecOps principles - must be able to do small, low-risk, high cadence change. Typically expected to complete regular production releases.

In this role, technology or specific programming languages will not be a barrier to getting things done - the job requires engineers who are natural problem solvers with deep understanding of core technical principles and concepts, enabling them to be diverse to deliver impactful solutions.

The role will also ensure the delivery of high-quality products by enforcing rigorous automated testing, code reviews, and performance optimization.

The role will carry out some or all of the following activities: Lead research of new technologies and drive their adoption to stay abreast of industry trends and standards Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture matches business needs Communicate with code, can identify a problem or an opportunity and then engineers a solution Lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of our development standards in order to ensure that technology can be leveraged as a sustainable competitive advantage Demonstrate mastery of technical discipline - and explain technology well to business people or senior managers such that they buy into a technology direction Collaborates across functional areas to define, prioritize and ensure implementation of specific innovations to improve technical functionality in support of business needs, efficiencies and revenue Communicate ideas succinctly - ability to communicate technical big picture vision, strategy and direction to all audiences Apply strategic thinking to many problems - a generalist, not a specialist in one domain (eg just networks) Mentor technology talent and take an active role in the development of other engineers - continuously improves themselves and their team Collaborate directly with Product Owners, procurement managers, architects, technical resource and personnel issues Collaborate directly with Product Owners and understand the involvement of intermediary roles such as architects, technical leads, business analysts, scrum master and project managers

Additional Role Requirements: Deep Technical Expertise: Well-versed in engineering principles and the broader technical landscape, with strong architectural knowledge. Leadership & Influence: Demonstrates gravitas and the ability to lead complex initiatives, inspire confidence, and motivate cross-functional teams. Strategic Collaboration: Works closely with internal stakeholders and business partners to align architecture decisions with organizational goals. Vision & Communication: Capable of articulating technical strategies clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, fostering alignment and buy-in

Deep Technical Expertise: Well-versed in engineering principles and the broader technical landscape, with strong architectural knowledge. Leadership & Influence: Demonstrates gravitas and the ability to lead complex initiatives, inspire confidence, and motivate cross-functional teams. Strategic Collaboration: Works closely with internal stakeholders and business partners to align architecture decisions with organizational goals. Vision & Communication: Capable of articulating technical strategies clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, fostering alignment and buy-in