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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Career Insight
- **Location:** Lancaster, UK
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £45,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Interoperability, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Open Source Technology, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, Digital Twin, HybridCloud, Git, Data Lakes, Production Code, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=916b270867204577

## About the Role

* A good degree in a relevant subject, or significant hands-on software engineering experience
 * Solid experience writing production code in at least one general-purpose language. Python is a bonus because it matches the current stack, but strong engineers from any language are welcome
 * Good engineering habits: Git and branching, automated testing, code review, debugging code you didn't write, and working with SQL and/or NoSQL data stores
 * Confidence deploying to Azure, AWS or GCP, working with Docker or similar, and a good grasp of CI/CD
 * Strong communication: you can work with non-specialists, write clear documentation, and give and take feedback well
 * Curiosity. The stack and the wider landscape keep evolving, and you want to evolve with them

## Description

You'll join a growing, multidisciplinary Digital Engineering team, working side by side with researchers and technical specialists. You'll build platform-agnostic, cloud-native systems in a hybrid cloud environment and keep them reliable, scalable and robust. You'll also help connect a wide mix of systems, data sources and datasets so they work together.

It's a hands-on engineering role. Day to day, you could be working on research cloud infrastructure, data lakes, digital twins or collaborative research platforms.

What you'll be doing

 * Build and run services: Design, build, test, review and deploy software services and data pipelines
 * Own it: Take components and project tasks from start to finish
 * Work with modern tooling: Containers, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
 * Make it FAIR: Apply Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable principles to your software, data and metadata
 * Give back to open source: Handle the licensing, documentation and packaging that make a release genuinely usable
 * Co-design with users: Find out what people actually need, show early work and iterate on their feedback
 * Translate the technical: Explain choices and trade-offs to non-engineers, in writing and in person
 * Shape how the team works: Join in planning, estimation and retrospectives