Shillito Group
Software Engineer – Embedded Systems
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We are delighted to be supporting a Sheffield based, international manufacturing business with the recruitment of a Software Engineer – Embedded Systems.
Reporting to the Senior Electronics Design Engineer, your role includes the design, development and testing of software development and maintenance. You will identify issues and work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders (internally and externally) to support continuous improvement of existing products and processes.
You should be a practical, curious software engineer who enjoys solving real problems and learning new things as requirements evolve.
The role:
- Develop, Maintain and problem solve the current aspects of software within the current product portfolio and future products.
- Reduce time to market of new features, on time delivery
- Improve response to failures/bugs
- Produce maintainable, well-structured and well-documented code
- Backend development
- Frontend/UI work
- Integrations and APIs
- Automation and tooling
- Cloud/infrastructure tasks
- Embedded software and firmware development
- Helping shape technical decisions
- Working closely with Hardware, including microcontrollers, device communication and low level systems.
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You:
- Degree in Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- solid programming fundamentals
- modern web technologies and UI frameworks
- Python, C/C++, JavaScript and/or similar languages
- Git and collaborative development workflows
- databases and APIs
- cloud platforms
- embedded systems or firmware development
- interest in both software and hardware environments
- able to work independently and figure things out
- comfortable working across different parts of a system
- strong problem-solving skills
- A good communicator at all levels with the proven ability of working as part of a team.
- Exceptional analytical and proven solving skills
- Self-motivated
- Good time management with the ability to focus on task completion.
- Experience of working in organisations with ISO9001 quality management systems.
- Good understanding of compliance related aspects of product software
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