Research Software Engineer: Geospatial Software Developer - University of Manchester
Posted 1 week ago by Michael Page
£44,263 Per year
Undetermined
Remote
Manchester
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- Excellent remote opportunity with a good pension scheme!
- Up to 44,000 per year and three posts available
About Our Client
Our client has an exciting opportunity for three Research Software Engineers - Geospatial Software Developers with expertise and experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geospatial Software Development. You will join an interdisciplinary project team to help support the technical development of the 8m NERC funded Digital Solutions Programme.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Engage in the development of high-quality software as a Full Stack software engineer with the additional expertise of Geospatial Software Engineering. This includes developing and testing high-quality Object-Oriented Code using best practices like SOLID and employing standard methods and patterns.
- Ability to work as a part of a team as well as on their own.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to solve problems with an engineering mindset rather than a developer mindset.
- Independently working on moderately complex systems and collaborating with colleagues on larger and more complex systems. This involves defining user/system interfaces, designing, coding, testing, and debugging software applications using multiple programming languages such as Python and C#, whilst ensuring efficiency, performance, and maintainability.
- Maintains comprehensive documentation using specified standards and tools, including prototyping tools when appropriate.
- Develops and implements unit, integration, and system testing to ensure software quality, reliability, and security.