Software Developer

Software Developer

Salary: £31,931 to £34,709 (dependent on skills and experience). A Specialist Allowance of up to £3000 per annum is also available for this role.

Contract Type: Open Ended

Hours: Full time or Part time

Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire.

Come and do the kind of engineering that made you want to be an engineer. Stretch your technical skills while building human understanding. Promote sustainability and create new materials. And, alongside world-leading scientists and technologists, shape projects that improve lives, and daily life, in the UK and far beyond.

Put simply, come, and discover the impact you can make when you're equipped, encouraged, and inspired to perform to your very best.

The ISIS department within the Science and Technology Facilities Council is a world-leading centre for research in the physical and life sciences. Our suite of neutron and muon instruments gives unique insights into the properties of materials on the atomic scale. We support a national and international community of more than 3000 scientists to research into subjects ranging from clean energy and the environment, pharmaceuticals, and health care, through to nanotechnology and materials engineering, catalysis and polymers, and on to fundamental studies of materials.

Software is a vital part of all science at ISIS. The ISIS computing division is a growing area and plays a crucial role in supporting the ISIS facility. It provides all of the software needs for our scientists. The systems Operations group provides web services and applications that are foundational pieces of the software suites used by scientists and users of the ISIS facility.

About the role

We are looking for a software developer to join our team. You will be involved in the full software development lifecycle and will use agile techniques and tools to write high-quality software in a range of server and client-side languages (e.g. Java, C#, React or similar). We provide solutions that enable the scientists and engineers we work with to perform world-class research.

The role is UK based, either at our campus in Oxfordshire, home-based or a hybrid. Starting employment will be conditional on your right to work. Sponsorship may be available if appropriate. Applications will be reviewed as received until the closing date.

About You

You will have a degree, or equivalent, in a relevant subject area, as well as experience in web and/or object-oriented development and running a production environment. You will show a proactive approach to problem-solving with excellent written and oral skills for effective communication with our customers. This role requires someone with good interpersonal skills who can explain technical concepts to both specialist and non-specialist audiences and who has a strong customer focus. You will have backend development experience and experience with relational databases.

Person Specification

The below criteria will be assessed at Shortlisting and Interview:

• Experience of developing high-quality software with a good understanding of standard methodologies in software development. (s&i)

• Experience of deploying to and running a production environment, possibly including DevOps or Kubernetes experience. (s&i)
• Grasp of relational databases. (s&i)
• A customer-centric approach with experience in requirements gathering, analysis, and specification. (s&i)
• Good interpersonal skills, particularly in presenting complex and technical information appropriate to the audience. (s&i)

• Strong problem-solving abilities. (s&i)

What we can offer you

By choosing to come and work at the STFC, part of UKRI, you will access a number of attractive benefits including:

• An outstanding index-linked pension scheme,
• 30 days leave plus 10 public holidays,
• Flexible working,
• An onsite subsidised nursery
• Access to employee shopping/travel discounts
• Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
• UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer.

We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers, and business-support team explore the unknown across every field you could think of. And they turn what they find into work that changes the world around us.

What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what's possible.

Closing date 27 November 2022