Senior Software Developer

Job Title: Senior Software Developer

Location: Marden, Kent, TN12 9QJ

Salary: £47,300 to £60,200 per annum (dependent on experience)

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week with a flexible start time.

Either based at our head office, or open to hybrid work from home.

Company Overview:

Burtons Manufacturing Co Ltd. is a veterinary equipment manufacturer based in Marden, Kent, just south of Maidstone. Established in 1981 Burtons has been supplying the veterinary industry with a full range of products for over 40 years.

Fundamental to the provision of safe anaesthesia is the support of well-designed ventilation and patient monitoring equipment. Burtons have a range of products that are designed specifically for veterinary use that use embedded or mainstream operating system software running mainly on Windows PC’s or Linux platforms.

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to be a key member of a team developing cutting-edge medical technology, in a company dedicated to manufacturing in the UK. Due to the growth of the company and range of products, Burtons need an experienced programmer to expand the development team. Burtons are looking for an experienced programmer well versed in Windows and Linux software development using C#, C++, .NET and web-based programming languages. The role will involve working on user-interface software for the control of mechanical ventilators and the monitoring of patients under anaesthesia. Burtons have a combination of electronic and clinically skilled personnel within the company driving forward new advances in animal ventilation and monitoring techniques. Burtons would like to expand the current software into hand-held mobile devices.

This role reports directly to the Production Director.

Responsibilities & Duties:

This is a senior role requiring proven skills and abilities; please note this role is not suitable for applicants requiring extensive training/mentoring.

• Work with existing programmers on developing new product code. Current projects include new animal ventilators, new multi-parameter patient monitors and a new ventilator simulation system.
• Be involved in the creation of new software from scratch, matched to the requirements of new products.
• Support existing code in legacy products by responding to customer reports and identified software defects.
• Support the development team with university and internal research projects.
• Work with the development team to expand the platform usage of existing software to include hand-held devices such as tablets and mobile phones.
• Demonstrate a desire to take ownership of own work and maintain excellent attention to detail.
• Work across departments to provide bespoke software solutions

About you:

Qualifications and Skills:

Primary:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience of developing applications using Windows Visual Studio
• Well versed in C#, C++, C, .NET
• Strong experience of working with Windows and Linux operating systems
• Experience of working with iOS and Android platforms
• Ability to adopt ownership of responsibility for a project, to oversee meeting of deadlines and project objective.
• Tertiary education with supporting qualifications
• Demonstration of previous industry work history
• Demonstration of extensive knowledge and previous experience may be considered in place of formal tertiary qualifications

Secondary:

• Good organisational and planning skills
• Clear and precise documentation and annotation for code development
• Ability to work alone and as part of a development team
• Ability to understand and focus on the core requirements of a task
• Ability to clearly explain ideas and concepts to less experienced members of the team or members of other departments

Beneficial:

• Experience of embedded systems
• C, C++ programming in embedded systems
• Working with the Microchip range of microcontrollers

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive annual salary £47,300.00 to £60,200.00 (dependent on experience)
• Permanent contract, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• 33 holiday days per year (inc. bank holidays)
• Pension scheme
• Excellent opportunities to further develop existing skills
• Idyllic countryside setting
• On-site car parking

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