Mid-Range Software Engineer

We are looking for embedded software engineers with product development experience to join our multidisciplinary team. You will have:

  • Varied embedded software development experience.
  • Experience in software lifecycle management.
  • Excellent embedded software skills and the capability to take on a development role.
  • The communication skills to deal directly with DCA’s clients.
  • 1st or upper 2nd class degree in software engineering from a university with a strong software reputation, or equivalent qualification.

Medical device development experience would be beneficial.

We can give you the opportunity to work with first-class colleagues on interesting and varied design projects across a wide range of market sectors, seeing the design through from initial specification to manufacturing handover.

We offer competitive salaries and other benefits such as bonus and profit-related pay schemes. We help our staff grow with regular professional and technical development training.

Development experience: We are looking for experienced software engineers who have a deep knowledge of developing real-time software in C for embedded microcontrollers. A good understanding of electronics and the ability to read schematics is important.

Planning and management skills: You will have experience in planning some software aspects of projects, and take full ownership of developing software in agreed timescales.

Communication skills: You will deal directly with clients and suppliers and so you need to have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will need to be capable of presenting formally and writing reports suitable for client delivery.

Multidisciplinary approach: We operate in multi-functional project teams. You will be interacting with designers, mechanical engineers and electronics engineers to help develop a product architecture that takes account of all the visual and functional aspects of a product

Enthusiasm and commitment: People at DCA enjoy their work. They like the atmosphere and the variety, and they deliver a very high quality of output. You need to be enthusiastic about the whole process of product creation and delivery.