Java Software Developer

Job Description

Company & RoleThis is an opportunity for you to make a genuine difference to peoples lives, helping scientists across the globe to detect &diagnose diseases, including COVID-19. The company isgoing through a period of extraordinary growth, with the ability to influenceprocess, practices &direction with existing &greenfield developments. The software team is a small, empowered, agile team responsible for all aspects of software, including firmware, desktop & eventually web technologies. There is opportunity to work withall of these technologies with relevant experience. This is your chance to make a genuine impact through digital solutions.The role is within theinstrumentation division of a multinational company specialising in DNA testing on a global scale. Having in-house R&D capability as well as a rapidly expanding manufacturing team means that the companycan deliver precision instrumentation&software &be reactive to market demands. Theyhave a proven track-record of delivering PCR instrumentation, analysis software &services across a range of applications. With recent expansion across the group theyare aiming to further grow their research&development activities to deliver the next generation of PCR technology. As part of this process theyare scaling up theirdevelopment team to introduce a new software engineer to help create &maintain theirsuite of Java desktop applications.This role can be fully remote, although ideally will be a hybrid working pattern, commutable from theirR&D facilities at Stokesley Business Park. (This is located adjacent to themarket town of Stokesley in North Yorkshire, approximately two miles to the southof the Middlesbrough boundary &ten miles from Middlesbrough town centre. Nearby towns are Guisborough (approximately 9 miles by road) &Northallerton (approximately 16 miles by road).. There may be very occasional travel to other sites in Southampton &/orCamberley too.Company Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday
• Company Bonus Scheme or Commission Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Buy/Sell Holiday (up to 5 days leave may be bought or sold)
• Refer a friend (£500 paid to employee for referring a new member of staff)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme: either the Group Pension Plan or the government NEST scheme
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Bonus between10%-15%

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Write, develop, test &maintain code to support instrumentation software
• Contribute to the improvement of the delivery lifecycle, through Agile methodologies, DevOps practices &frequent retrospectives
• Investigate &implement new technologies to allow the code to be more maintainable as the business scales

RequirementsEssential

• Demonstrable experience in Java and Spring Boot
• An agile mindset, an ability to be flexible and adaptable in a growing organisation and the understanding of the software tools and practices to achieve this
• A growth mindset, the desire to grow personally and professionally and not be defined by one technology or way of doing things
• Knowledge of good software engineering practices, such as unit testing, SOLID principles, DevOps principles etc.
• Familiarity with good software lifecycle management concepts:
• Git workflow and change control
• Automated testing
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Issue tracking
• Versioning and release management
• Working with others respectfully as part of a team, seeking out relationships outside of immediate team, communicating in a safe environment with courage to others in the business if something can be improved

Desirable

• A genuine desire to want to make a difference to peoples lives through providing customers and patients access to diagnostic services in the fight against infectious diseases
• Experience in instrumentation software and R&D, preferably in the field of Life Sciences
• Varied experience across desktop software, cloud services, firmware development, IoT, analysis algorithms and data science using a variety of languages
• Experience of development within quality systems (e.g. ISO9001)
• Experience of development within regulated applications (e.g. ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and IEC 62304)

InterestedIf interested, please apply here or email your CV directly to