Software Development Engineer

Software Development Engineer

Hounslow (Hybrid - 50% of the time on site)
12 Month Contract
Up to 430 p/d Umbrella Rate - Inside IR35

Would you like your code to sit inside the software that gets aircraft away on time? This Software Development Engineer contract is with a team building mission-critical airline operations software, from load optimisation and weight and balance to regulatory-compliant load sheets.

You'll design and build APIs, integrations and messaging across a set of connected products, working with Product Managers, Technical Business Analysts, Architects and Quality Engineers in Agile teams. The stack is varied, AI-assisted engineering tools are in everyday use, and your judgement decides what ships. 12 months, hybrid, with half your time on site in Hounslow.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and delivering scalable, secure, maintainable software aligned with product and architectural goals
• Building APIs, integrations, messaging and data exchange between interconnected products and services
• Writing automated tests and validation to support quality, reliability and continuous delivery
• Taking part in peer reviews, technical design discussions and architecture reviews
• Using AI-assisted engineering tools, and checking their code, tests and designs against security, performance and operational standards
• Investigating defects, finding root causes and supporting deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting

What You'll Bring

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, plus 3+ years in software development within Agile product teams
• Strong software engineering, solution design and systems modelling skills, with enterprise software experience
• A good understanding of APIs, integrations, distributed systems and software architecture principles
• Experience with automated testing, source control, CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Confident use of AI-assisted engineering tools, and the judgement to challenge what they produce

Desirable:

airline or airport operations (flight operations, weight and balance, load control, baggage or ramp), mission-critical, safety-critical or regulated systems, event-driven, service-oriented or cloud-native architectures, observability, monitoring or SRE, SQL, messaging and event streaming, AI-DLC practices, AI-powered or agentic software

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Backend Developer, Integration Engineer, API Engineer, Application Developer

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd acts as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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