Software Engineer

Artificial Lift Performance Ltd (ALP) is seeking an ambitious Software Engineer located in Edinburgh, UK. The Software Engineer will be responsible for delivering high-quality commercial software, mentor other developers and be ensure that the platform support is commercially focused and that the engineering team are fulfilling their 3rd line support responsibilities.

What You Will Do

As an engineer:

• Key to this appointment is a strong sense of software ownership and the desire to support and develop junior members of the team. This person must have a strong engineering background, successful track record in delivering high-quality commercial software and can establish credibility as well as providing input into technical decision making.
• Being able to organise your own work, problem solve efficiently and know when to consult are necessary traits to succeed in this position

As a technical leader:

• Influence and make good technical design decisions.
• Actively contribute to technical and architectural discussions.
• Own feature brief documents for product enhancements.
• Participate in the evolution of the architecture to support the product road map, and play an instrumental role in the software engineering team
• Deal with technical challenges that are particularly high profile, urgent, or strategically important to get right.
• Have a pedigree of delivering successful technology solutions, across multiple products.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 or 3+ years relevant experience.
• Candidates should be passionate about quality software development and have a strong desire to learn and improve.
• Good problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently and in a team are essential.
• Primary technical knowledge and background in C# (with an interest and experience in other languages), Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC.
• Knowledge and understanding of Object-Oriented Programming principles and design.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data technologies bringing a breadth of knowledge and experience across this domain.
• Experience in analysing and tuning database technologies to performance at scale
• Experience in front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
• Knowledge or experience of unit and integration testing frameworks.