Software Engineer
Background
The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.
At Motion Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future . Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.
We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable.
Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.
To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.
By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future .
Purpose of the Role
As a Software Engineer in the Data Platforms Team, you will work on a variety of challenges to design and deliver complex products and solutions for our ATLAS (Advanced Telemetry Linked Acquisition System) suite and other related systems. You will be passionate about technology and eager to use the most effective and applicable technologies, to create robust and scalable software.
You will work on a variety of challenges to deliver complex products and solutions, which ultimately enable race engineers and strategists to access powerful, race-winning insights in F1 and other motorsports series.
Our software combines many capabilities, including data capture, visualisation and modelling of real time and historic data for detailed analysis, reporting, anomaly detection and enabling the best strategic decisions to be made.
Through clean and consistent coding, you will contribute to optimise our methods of data streaming, aggregation, manipulation, modelling and visualisation.
Principal Accountabilities
Developing and maintaining the ATLAS software suite
Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Field Application Engineers to understand and resolve race issues
Analyse user requirements, for both validity and feasibility
Detect, document and track software defects and inconsistencies
Apply quality assurance principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle
Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities, in collaboration with the Data Platforms team
Meeting or exceeding our unit test case code coverage
Working with other developers to support pull requests, peer reviews and knowledge transfer
Contribute to release planning and burndowns by providing development estimates
Writing technical documentation
Identify risk and escalate appropriately when required
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience
Essential
First class degree or upper 2nd in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience)
A thorough understanding of Software Engineering principles
Proficiency in C# .NET
Experience using the WPF framework
Experience using SQL
Experience using Git version control with development and release branching strategies
Familiarity with CICD pipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps
Good understanding and practice of agile project management frameworks
Ability to work both as part of a team and individually
High attention to detail and solid analytical skills
Desirable
Experience with graphics API’s (eg. DirectX or similar)
Experience in C++ / CLI
Experience in database/application scaling, optimisation and monitoring
Experience with time series databases
Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka
Experience and understanding of building products on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure and GCP and micro services
Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed (eg. Python, Angular, React)
Experience with dependency injection frameworks (eg. Autofac)
Experience in distributed computing, machine learning, data science
Experience with building data pipelines, data streaming applications
Experience in, or enthusiastic, about motorsport
What we can offer you
In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.
At Motion Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.
Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues).
Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary
Opportunity to join the Motion Applied Pension Plan
Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful completion of their probationary period.
Who we are
Motion Applied are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.
Motion Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. Motion Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme .