3 days ago
Crawley, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to develop innovative software solutions.
- Support requirements definition, system design, and architectural decision-making.
- Develop, integrate, and optimise software components within larger system solutions.
- Produce maintainable and testable code in line with engineering standards.
- Contribute to software verification, validation, and deployment activities.
- Design and implement scalable and performant software features.
- Support project planning, estimation, and delivery activities.
- Share knowledge and best practices to improve team capability and solution quality.
Requirements
- Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Professional experience designing, developing, testing, and integrating software solutions.
- Strong knowledge of software development principles and modern engineering practices.
- Experience with one or more programming languages such as C++, C, Java, or Python.
- Knowledge of software build processes, compilation techniques, and continuous integration pipelines.
- Understanding of computing platforms, operating systems, and virtualisation technologies.
- Experience working in Agile or iterative development environments.
- Desirable experience in defence, aerospace, regulated industries, ISR systems, embedded software, firmware, device drivers, hardware interfaces, RTOS, bare-metal development, performance optimisation, debugging, profiling, HAL, BSP, or embedded Linux.
Benefits
- Private medical insurance.
- Option to buy or sell annual leave.
- Cycle-to-work schemes.
- Employee discounts.
- Paid volunteering day.
- Stocks and shares.
- Annual bonus.
- Inclusive workplace programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and other benefits.
About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.