Software Engineer

Overview

Aquent is partnering with a leading global technology company renowned for its innovation and commitment to shaping the future of digital experiences. This organization is at the forefront of developing groundbreaking solutions that impact millions worldwide, fostering an environment where curiosity and creativity drive progress.

Are you ready to make a significant impact on an internal product that empowers teams and drives efficiency within a cutting-edge technological ecosystem? We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Software Engineer to join a dynamic team, where your expertise will directly contribute to the design, implementation, and evolution of critical features using advanced AI tooling. This is an incredible opportunity to take full ownership of projects, collaborate with brilliant minds, and see your contributions come to life, shaping the tools that enable innovation at scale.

This is a 6-month contract, offering up to £46.15 per hour – 40 hrs/week (PAYE). The shortlisted candidates will be contacted ASAP. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually.

**Key Responsibilities:**

* Design, implement, and build features for an internal product, leveraging AI tooling to create innovative solutions.
* Contribute to end-to-end tasks, making largely independent technical contributions towards larger goals with minimal assistance.
* Independently plan, prioritize, and execute work, identifying and resolving technical problems within requirements.
* Participate in design discussions, often with guidance, and contribute to qualification, end-user documentation, production deployment/monitoring, process automation, and customer support.
* Set up or improve test/monitoring/survey infrastructure or processes, considering code health, system maintainability, and scalability.
* Contribute to existing documentation and educational content, adapting based on product updates and user feedback.
* Triage product or system issues, debugging and resolving by analyzing sources and impact on operations and quality.
* Write product or system development code for tasks with minimal assistance.
* Conduct comprehensive testing beyond unit tests (e.g., integration, performance, stress, security, load, fuzz), and design code for easy testability.
* Review code developed by peers, providing feedback on best practices, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
* Identify and address technical debt to enhance long-term maintainability and modifiability.

**Required Skills & Experience:**

* Experience in a software engineering role, demonstrating full ownership of projects.
* Experience in full-stack software development.
* Experience with data structures and algorithms.
* Strong experience with Angular (latest versions) and TypeScript.
* Proven full-stack web development experience, including RESTful API development with Java, Kotlin, or Go.
* Proficiency in debugging, diagnosis, and resolution of complex issues.
* Strong systems thinking capabilities.
* Experience with test engineering principles and practices.
* Solid programming skills.
* Understanding of software architecture.
* Ability to perform data analysis and synthesis.
* Knowledge of system design principles.
* Commitment to code and system health.
* Excellent code comprehension skills.