Senior Software Engineer

Arqit Quantum Inc.
London
2 weeks ago
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Senior Software Engineer

Department:480 - Software Engineering

Employment Type:Permanent

Location:London


Description

Arqit is a global cybersecurity company delivering quantum-safe encryption to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Powered by its advanced symmetric key cryptography, the Arqit SKA-Platform offers scalable encryption that is resilient to quantum threats. The platform allows devices to seamlessly generate and share secure encryption keys, ensuring robust data protection across sectors like telecoms, defence, and finance.Stronger, simpler encryption.

We are looking to expand our software team with individuals who are interested in joining a fast-paced, exciting tech scale-up. We can offer you fun and interesting work in cloud cybersecurity, and we have a great team culture that gives you the opportunity to innovate, take ownership, and scale new heights in your career. On offer is a friendly office environment (close to Victoria, Westminster and St James park stations) with considerable flexibility around working from home, and the challenge of working in a complex environment where no two days are the same.

As aSenior Software Engineerat Arqit you will join a diverse and talented group of experienced software engineers, system architects, DevOps and QA providing the opportunity to further develop both technical and leadership skills as the company continues to grow. We are looking for an enthusiastic technologist who can adapt to the needs of the team, have a passion for learning and a constant desire to expand their knowledge.


What you'll be doing

You will join a friendly and supportive Agile Scrum team that works in a fast-paced environment and takes responsibility for the full delivery cycle of new features, from requirement through to production, following best practice engineering principles in the process.

You will work on the SKA-Platform, our pioneering cybersecurity product, and in the process learn a diverse set of skills that enable you to implement and deploy a cutting-edge microservice-based architecture. Additionally, you will develop new and existing cybersecurity products and applications that leverage the features of our proprietary SKA-Platform.

  1. Develop software for the SKA-Platform working under the guidance of our software architects and senior engineers.
  2. Transform architectural models into component designs ready to be incrementally developed, tested and deployed.
  3. Collaborate closely with your team of software, automation and DevOps engineers to implement, review, test and deploy full-stack software changes.
  4. Analyse the metrics of your deployment changes, ensuring high resiliency and performance is maintained, resolving issues if they arise.
  5. Fix issues found internally and by our customers.
  6. Actively participate in Agile development activities and rituals, supporting the growth of the team and its members.
  7. Be open to receiving feedback and be willing to offer constructive feedback and support to others.
  8. Work closely with the Product Management team to help further refine requirements.
  9. Follow a career path towards senior engineering roles.


What we're looking for

About you

You're an intelligent innovator who thinks outside of the box with a record of delivering great results against the most complex of problems. You take ownership without being asked to, work with autonomy and you're a team player with a relentless desire to help your team to succeed. You're open, honest and respectful, appreciating the value of diversity, and you enjoy the challenge of working in an ambiguous environment where no two days are the same. You recognise the need to work at pace but are also laser-focused to ensure that what's delivered delights the end-user.

What we’re looking for

Essential:

  1. BSc/MSc/BEng/MEng or equivalent in Computer Science, electronic engineering or related field, or significant commercial experience of developing complex enterprise software and services.
  2. Demonstrable experience in building horizontally-scalable mission-critical enterprise software and services, preferably in a startup environment.
  3. Experience of cloud service development (public/hybrid/private cloud PaaS or SaaS).
  4. Extensive experience of Java/Kotlin programming and best practice.
  5. Demonstrable passion for software development through self-learning, personal projects, competitions etc.
  6. Experience of triage, RCA and fix for software issues within a distributed system.
  7. Competence in multiple programming languages.
  8. Experience of database development (SQL and NoSQL).
  9. Experience with design patterns, refactoring, OO design and related areas.
  10. Experience developing with the Micronaut framework.
  11. Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills.
  12. Demonstrate accountability for results whilst working with high autonomy.
  13. Right to live and work in the UK without restriction.
  14. Ability to gain UK security clearance.

Desirable:

  1. Experience working in cyber security.
  2. Working knowledge or applied cryptography.
  3. Agile Scrum or Kanban experience.
  4. Experience of consuming cloud services from the big 3 providers Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google).
  5. Both Linux and Windows development experience.
  6. Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript.
  7. CI/CD deployment experience (Azure DevOps, Helm, Flux).
  8. Experience working in a start-up.

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