Software Engineer

Background

The world around us is experiencingsignificant 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 Engineerin theData Platforms Team,you will work on a variety of challenges to design and deliver complex products and solutions for ourATLAS (Advanced Telemetry Linked Acquisition System)suite and other related systems.You will be passionate about technologyandeager touse the most effective and applicable technologies,to createrobust and scalable software.

You will work on a variety of challenges todelivercomplexproducts andsolutions,whichultimatelyenablerace engineers and strategists to access powerful, race-winning insights in F1 and other motorsports series.

Our software combinesmanycapabilities,includingdata capture,visualisationand modellingofreal timeand historic datafordetailedanalysis, reporting,anomaly detectionand enabling the best strategicdecisions to be made.

Through clean and consistent coding, you willcontribute tooptimiseour methods of data streaming, aggregation, manipulation,modellingandvisualisation.

Principal Accountabilities

• DevelopingandmaintainingtheATLASsoftwaresuite
• Collaborate closely withProductManagersandField Application Engineers tounderstand andresolve race issues
• Analyseuser requirements, for both validity and feasibility
• Detect, document and track software defects andinconsistencies
• Apply quality assurance principlesthroughout the Agile product lifecycle
• Identifyand implement continuous improvement opportunities,in collaboration with theData Platformsteam
• Meeting or exceeding our unit test casecode coverage
• Working with other developers to supportpullrequests,peerreviews andknowledgetransfer
• Contribute to release planningand burndownsby providingdevelopmentestimates
• Writing technical documentation
• Identifyrisk and elevate appropriatelywhenrequired

Knowledge, Skills, Qualificationsand Experience

Essential

• First class degree or upper 2ndin Computer Scienceorsimilar technical field of study(or equivalent practical experience)
• A thorough understanding of Software Engineering principles
• ProficiencyinC#.NET
• Experience usingtheWPF framework
• ExperienceusingSQL
• Experience using Git version control with development and release branching strategies
• Familiarity with CICDpipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps
• Good understandingand practiceofagileproject management frameworks
• Ability to work both as part of a team and individually
• High attention to detail and solid analytical skills

Desirable

• Experience withgraphics API’s(eg.DirectXor similar)
• Experience in C++ / CLI
• Experience in database/application scaling,optimisationand monitoring
• Experiencewith time series databases
• Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka
• Experience and understanding of building products on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure and GCPand micro services
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed (eg.Python, Angular, React)
• Experience with dependency injectionframeworks (eg.Autofac)
• Experience in distributed computing, machine learning, data science
• Experience with building data pipelines, data streaming applications
• Experience in, or enthusiastic, aboutmotorsport

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.