Application Engineer

Salary: £60,000 – £90,000 per year

Application Engineer, x 3, Berkshire, UK, upto 75k

Main Responsibilities

* Design, develop and maintain innovative applications to improve communications for the company’s wide range of international clients

* Work alongside other Applications Engineers to design the product concept and advise how it can be implemented technically within constraint

* Manage the day-to-day activities of software projects by tracking and analysing progress and collaborating with Project Managers when necessary.

* Offer expert client support efficiently when required, to ensure that the company’s high levels of customer service and solution delivery are upheld

* Co-operate closely with test engineers to ensure that the high reliability underpinning the company’s success is maintained

* Offer technical input during the tendering phase of projects

* Apply, promote and continuously improve best practices and standards to continue and enhance the company’s excellent international reputation.

Experience and Skills

Degree Educated,

* Have at least BBB at A level or equivalent

* A minimum of 2 years of web development experience

* Experience in programming in PHP and JavaScript

* Experience in SQL such as Microsoft SQL Server and PostGRES

* Xamarin App Development

* Experience in source control, in particular Git

* Experience in continuous integration or deployment

* Must have the relevant documentation to work in the UK on a permanent basis

* Be hard working, ambitious and eager to acquire new skills

* Good time management skills

* Good oral and written skills

* General customer facing skills

* Uphold the company’s values and ethos, and adhere to relevant quality, security and environmental frameworks to enforce the company’s accreditations (e.g. ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO14001)

* Be well organised with excellent attention to detail.

Desirables

Experience in designing and building scalable, responsive systems

Experience in NoSQL such as ElasticSearch

Knowledge of technologies such as WebRTC, AJAX and Web Sockets

Knowledge and experience working to OWASPASVS or equivalent application security standards

Proven experience of delivering applications with a high degree of usability

Experience of working in an Agile environment, preferably SCRUM

Framework experience such as Symfony 3, Vue.js

Experience in web service development ideally using.NET

Experience in using Jenkins and Puppet

Experience in using test tools such as Selenium Web Driver, SoapUI, Burp Suite

Ability to converse with users at all levels of IT literacy and rank

Have a full UK driving licence

Be comfortable working in a fast-growing company full of enthusiastic, highly intelligent colleagues.