About the role DroneShield is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Embedded Software Interfaces (ESI) team, passionately focused on helping our internal and external customers to interface with our Embedded devices using robust and performant APIs. Our products enable a seamless and performant user experience for DroneShield customers to use our world leading RF detect and defeat capabilities to protect their assets. It represents an exceptional opportunity for a result-driven individual in a new niche but exploding market. Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations Build new features and capabilities daily in a complex Embedded micro-services environment Collaborate with other engineers and designers between Embedded, frontend, and customer tech stacks Write and review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind Drive strong outcomes around test driven development to enhance API product quality and performance Own an Agile development mindset, appreciating the benefit of constant improvement, and participating in rituals such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming Ensure software is designed for reliability, and performance on resource constrained targets Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on user and business requirements Qualifications, Experience and Skills 5 years experience building backend and API applications Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for a Software Engineering, or Computer Science background Proficiency in web-based applications and architecture, crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant gRPC and REST micro-services Expertise in developing performant production quality backend services in Go and/or Python Demonstrated passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills Strong communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients) Broad knowledge and understanding of micro-service architectures with basic hands-on experience operating in Linux environments Familiarity with quality API and backend architecture patterns What sets you apart Experience working in API development in a medium-large scale SaaS organisation Experience working closely with ambiguous and complex customer requirements, being able to navigate uncertainty, to develop high quality and innovative solutions Comfortable on the command line in a Linux first environment Software development experience in Python, Golang, Modern C++ (2 languages preferred) Application development with cross-cutting concerns (logging, persistence, security, configuration management, transactional behaviour) Desirable skills: Development of applications for Linux based embedded devices Inter-device communication using gRPC, REST, raw TCP/UDP, or other high performance messaging protocols Development tools including Git, Jira, Confluence, CICD Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed.
