This job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test, measurement and data analytics industry. You will be a strong contributor collaborating closely with colleagues from various business functions.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it's how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

The Position

We are searching for a high-calibre Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Durability and Reliability Centre of Excellence.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced C++ Software Engineer to join a progressive team at the forefront of our innovation activities. Working alongside our world class Technology Team, you will be responsible for implementing key algorithms for signal processing, analysis, and prediction of mechanical failure. In addition, you will implement APIs to make these algorithms available to C++, Python, and C# Software Engineers both inside and outside the organization. We offer industry specific training and certifications to grow your career.

We take great pride in the quality of our software and employ modern coding practices, standards, tooling, and products to ensure we release the best product we can for our customers. We are always looking for continual improvement, so this is a great time to join us and combine your enthusiasm with our drive.

The successful candidate will join a scrum team to support delivery of an exciting new-to-the-market engineering software product. You will undertake activities across the full software development life cycle, participating in system design, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD processes in addition to implementation. We operate an Agile delivery methodology within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and actively encourage everyone to be involved at all stages of planning, delivery, and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation of new algorithms for solving complex engineering problems
• Helping to develop and maintain software architecture
• Software design
• Software development, quality, and testing
• Documentation
• Participation in the planning process
• Sharing good practice and mentoring

Key Qualifications and Experience

Must have:

• Demonstrable experience in modern software development
• Recent C++ experience
• Good knowledge of software testing (unit and integration) and best practices
• A good working knowledge of secure coding practices

Desirable:

• Experience in C#, .NET and Python
• Experience of working within a fully automated CI/CD cloud hosted environment
• Experience of Agile working, ideally within the Scaled Agile Framework
• Interest in engineering, physics or maths especially mechanical engineering, strain gauge applications, vibration or fatigue analysis, signal processing

Personal Skills

• Support and actively promote inter-cultural working and champion the HBK values of Own It, Be True and Aim High.
• Enjoy discussing engineering problems/solutions and collaborating with others.

We offer

The job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test and measurement industry. You will be a strong contributor who collaborates closely with colleagues from various business functions all over the world.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it's how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

One company – HBK

On 1 January 2019, Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged their activities into a new company called HBK (Hottinger, Brüel & Kjær). With more than 3,500 employees worldwide and production facilities in Denmark, Germany, the UK, the USA, China and Portugal and presence in 80 countries, HBK becomes a leading player in the test and measurement area. For further info please visit HBK is a division of Spectris plc, a UK-based productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company serving leading aerospace, automotive, medical, and other customers. Spectris plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Application deadline

Please submit your application and CV by using the direct application link.

Please note that we will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis.