Senior Software Engineer

Ansys
London
1 month ago
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The choice of materials we use has never been more important. Engineers always strive to design better solutions, and in today’s world that means considering sustainability and environmental impacts as well as product performance. Our software allows engineers and designers to make smarter decisions about the materials they use and enables them to create products that are safer, use fewer scarce resources, emit less pollution and can be more effectively recycled.


Working at Ansys, you will have the opportunity to create software used by world leading companies in sectors as varied as aerospace, electronics, medical devices, automotive and many more. Our products help power the advancement of cutting-edge industries such as autonomous vehicles, sustainable transportation, advanced semiconductors, life-saving medical devices, satellite systems and the space industry.


If you are the type of person who gets excited about making software with very direct real-world applications and consequences, then you won’t be able to find many other companies that have the potential to make such a difference to our future.


We are a great place to work

We are excited to be named one of the Best Places to Work thanks to our employee feedback. You will have the freedom to choose how you work, whether that’s at home or in our offices or a mix between the two. We offer a range of benefits including a 24/7 GP Service with Private Medical Care, an Annual Bonus, and 25 Days Holiday (increasing to 30 over the first 5 years).


You’ll be a good fit if

  • You are an experienced .NET developer that is highly proficient in C#
  • You can demonstrate that you can write clean, maintainable code
  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • You have worked on a large code base; collaborating with others in a geographically distributed team
  • You can work independently


Key Duties and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

  • Develop new features and products working from customer requirements.
  • Produce clean, maintainable, and well tested code (primarily in C#).
  • Employ best practices (and help to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring).
  • Analyze problems discovered by QA or product support and develop solutions.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

  • A first-class or upper second-class honors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science or Mathematics (or related field)
  • Significant professional software development experience and experience of modern software development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

Successful candidates must have

  • A high level of technical competency in C# and the .NET framework
  • Understanding and experience of applying modern software best practices
  • An ability to design and write clean, maintainable code.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team

Experience in the following would be advantageous (but are not requirements)

  • Experience of large-scale commercial software development
  • Profiling and optimization
  • SQL Server
  • Containers (e.g. Docker) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)

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