Staff Software Engineer

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STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER / OXFORDSHIRE / UP TO £80,000 & GREAT BENEFITS
Amazing new opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to join a niche and growing tech organisation. Excellent pay and challenging opportunities to ensure you realise your potential!
Alces Flight designs and develops innovative software for AI&HPC systems across the UK. We are advocates of open-source software and strongly believe in community-driven development. We have a wide customer base in multiple market sectors including academic/research institutions, banking, manufacturing and Formula One.
Due to increasing investment we're developing a new platform to expand our reach into Europe and the US and are looking for a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our development team to help hack out the core of a new SaaS/IaaS platform from the ground up.
What’s on Offer?

  • Excellent pay (Up to 80,000, Dependent on Experience)
  • Exposure to challenging projects, cutting-edge technologies, and daily learning opportunities - we're an agile company at the forefront of our industry.
  • This role is offering hybrid working, 3 days in the office 2 days remote
    Key Responsibilities of the Staff Software Engineer:
  • Work directly with and alongside company directors, an existing product lead and our system architects to hack out a core product that fits our particular gap in the market.
  • Research, design and implement new software programs
  • Develop and integrate existing software programs and platforms
  • Be hands on with our uniquely agile design, implementation and testing methodologies
  • You'll be frequently exposed to large scale AI computer systems and supercomputers, as well as emerging technologies such as public and private IaaS
  • Small frequent deployments are what we strive for
  • We primarily work with Ruby on Rails but you can expect to use multiple technologies whenever something becomes more appropriate.
    What You’re Good At:
  • You have a passion for all things software development
  • Your interests/skills have particular emphasis on open-source software and Linux environments
  • You love solving problems; you understand that to solve business problems you have to draw on your extensive variety of multi-discipline skills
  • You are a polyglot programmer, able to work in multiple programming languages
  • You Understand how to prioritise: you know when to plan and when to take the plunge
  • You have a great attitude towards learning new and developing existing skills
  • You want to lead and mentor software developers of all skill levels
    What makes you Ideal:
  • You have a demonstrable open-source software background (e.g., GitHub account and projects, etc.)
  • You are a fast mover; you have a strong drive to continue to build your career in cutting-edge development
  • You have a can-do personality, comfortable with communication at all levels, have run engineering teams or cross-functional teams
  • A passion for small business, you understand the day to day obstacles that arise and have a can-do passionate attitude about involving yourself in anything
  • You have degree level education
  • You can demonstrate experience in running engineering teams or cross functional teams
  • You're comfortable with and have experience working closely with senior stakeholders and wider business goals outside of a development only mindset.
  • You have experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Ruby, Python
  • You Know your TLAs from OOP, MVC, and SQL to TLS, TCP and VPN,
  • You Know when to use Infrastructure as Code and DevOps methodologies,
  • You've worked with cloud technologies such as AWS, OpenStack, Azure or Google Cloud
    What’s Next?
    If you have the skills and passion to be successful in this Staff Software Engineer role, we would love to hear from you. APPLY TODAY and we will be in touch to discuss further

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