Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Senior Software Engineer.

You will be joining our team at an exciting time - we maintain the UK’s National Time Scale, UTC (NPL), and are currently developing anew resilient Time Scale facilitythat will underpin our Critical National Infrastructure.This will address the risks associated with our dependency on global navigation satellite systems (such as GPS) that are vulnerable to both natural and intentional interference.

As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll collaborate with prominent Scientists and Engineers todevelop and implement innovative, production-ready software to time, quality, and cost.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborating with senior stakeholders to ensure that software aligns with business strategy
• Working cross-functionally to gather project requirements, analyse feasibility, and provide technical recommendations
• Leadership of an Agile Software team, with review of work
• Code reviews to ensure cleanliness, efficiency and quality through testing and debugging, and adherence of standards throughout the software development cycle
• Working as a team to accurately assess and communicate risks and mitigations
• Explaining complex tech concepts and advisory to both internal and external stakeholders, from technical and non-technical backgrounds
•  Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in software engineering and sharing your knowledge to advance the team

This role offers exciting opportunities to collaborate with subject-matter experts across the business.