Senior Software Engineer, Recycleye

• Strong knowledge of Python, with examples of complex commercial projects to support this knowledge
• Significant hands-on experience in delivering production-level code and promoting best practices at a senior level
• Experience supporting and mentoring more junior members of a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor information and delivery appropriate to the audience
• Good familiarity with cloud systems such as Azure, GCP, AWS
• Experience with networking concepts – such as VPNs, certificates, and related technologies
• Demonstrable commercial experience, with examples of when you have had to understand complex commercial requirements to deliver maximum customer value
• Experience working through the cycle of planning, designing, executing, and supporting a product

Desirable

• This role is part of our Device and Connections team, which is made up of a combination of a tech lead, other Software Engineers, and our Controls Engineers
• The software engineers on the team are responsible for developing and maintaining our software platform, handling and providing support for issues raised by clients, as well as improving the health and long-term resilience of our codebase
• In this role, you will lead on product features and provide support to ongoing projects, which often involves collaboration with other members of Recycleye, including our hardware and machine learning engineers
• Tech stack: Python, Deepstream, Azure, IoT Edge
• Serve as a role model in adopting a holistic, well-rounded mindset that considers commercial, physical and software solutions in addressing challenges
• Understand and adapt to practical limitations. Client site conditions (low internet) and running on hardware can affect the robustness of our system and ability to effectively test. Integrate this understanding into the design, testing, and deployment of your work
• Review PRs and collaborate with other members of the team to improve our engineering excellence across the board
• Work on support tickets and help to prioritise work to minimise the team’s support burden and enable the Customer Support team to self-serve issues by building tooling
• You will collaborate with the team’s tech lead to create the technical roadmap in an uncertain environment, balancing business impact vs confidence and making tactical development bets
• Advocate for an industrialisation mindset – high quality code and resilience over extra features, leading to strong, scalable production processes
• Lead efforts to refine team ways of working, including versioning, documentation, release and deployment processes
• Advocate for a working environment that is both efficient and sustainable