Senior Software Development Engineer

Indra Group

Senior Software Development Engineer contributing to design and development within GuardianUTM. Key role in ensuring quality software delivery and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeReading • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudDockerGrafanaJavaScriptKubernetes.NETPostgresPrometheusSQLTypeScriptVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software components that meet defined functional and non-functional requirements.
Take ownership of significant features or services, ensuring code is maintainable, performant, and aligned with agreed standards.
Proactively identify and address technical debt and any stability concerns within the codebase.
Ensure solutions are delivered in line with agreed scope, timescales, and quality expectations.
Contribute to the implementation of complex components and integrations, working within established architectural patterns.
Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Architects to ensure technical solutions are consistent with platform design and long-term direction.
Apply sound engineering judgement to solve problems and make day-to-day technical decisions.
Demonstrate initiative in identifying improvements and driving them through to completion.
Support predictable and efficient delivery by contributing to planning, estimation, and task breakdown.
Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly within the team.
Take responsibility for delivering work through the full development lifecycle, from design through to production support.
Support the operation of production systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
Investigate and resolve issues, contributing to root cause analysis and continuous improvement of system resilience.
Ensure solutions are designed with operability in mind, including monitoring, logging, and supportability.
Follow and contribute to established engineering standards, testing approaches, and development practices.
Participate in code reviews, ensuring quality and consistency across the codebase.
Support continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and team ways of working.
Work within defined engineering standards, architectural guidelines, and governance frameworks.
Ensure developed solutions meet required safety, regulatory, and operational constraints.
Support documentation and audit requirements where needed.
Work closely with product, safety, and operational teams to ensure technical solutions meet business and regulatory needs.
Collaborate effectively with other engineers to deliver integrated platform capabilities.
Provide guidance and support to less experienced engineers within the team.
Contribute to knowledge sharing and help promote good engineering practices.
Communicate technical progress, issues, and risks clearly within the team and to relevant stakeholders.
Support effective collaboration by contributing to shared understanding of requirements and solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

**Essential**
· Strong commercial experience with C# / .NET
· Experience building and supporting distributed or cloud-based systems
· Experience with containerised applications (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
· Experience supporting and troubleshooting production systems
· Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git)
· Experience with TypeScript or modern frontend frameworks
· Experience working in agile delivery environments (e.g. Scrum)
**Desirable**
· Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure)
· Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release processes
· Experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging, alerting)
· Experience in technical leadership or mentoring roles
· Experience working in safety- or regulation-driven environments
**Technology Stack**
· .NET (latest versions)
· Kubernetes & Docker
· Azure (SQL, CosmosDB, cloud services)
· PostgreSQL
· TypeScript / modern web frameworks (e.g. Vue.js)
· Observability tooling (e.g. Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana)
· Azure DevOps / CI-CD pipelines

Benefits

Comp & perks

· Holidays: 25 days per annum + 8 days bank holidays (options to buy/sell days)
· 37.5 hour working week
· Pension – 4% employee and 4% employer
· Private medical insurance (including dental & optical)
· Life assurance
· Income protection
· Employee assistance programs
· Flexible/remote working options
· Charitable initiatives
· Social events (formal & informal)
· Learning and development programs
· Innovative & collaborative work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

C#.NETDockerKubernetesTypeScriptPostgreSQLAzureCI/CDobservability toolsagile delivery

Soft Skills

communicationinitiativecollaborationtechnical leadershipproblem-solvingmentoringplanningtask breakdowncontinuous improvementknowledge sharing