Software Engineer

Starting from £46,575k, salary depending on skills and experience

Permanent

Full time with flexibility for part-time

Hybrid working & Lincoln or Huntingdon Office

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will either be in our Lincoln or Huntingdon office and the expectation would be to work from the office 2-3 days a week.

Join the Digital Transformation at Anglian Water!

We’re on an exciting journey in Digital Engineering, redefining our role from a traditional support function to a trusted, strategic partner. Our Digital engineering practice works side by side with subject matter experts across the business to co-create user‑centred, data‑driven products & platforms that boost performance and productivity. Using modern technology and agile thinking, we design, build, and evolve digital solutions that stay ahead of business needs and tech trends.

We don’t just deliver,
we continuously improve
, ensuring our digital products and platforms remain powerful, purposeful, and perfectly aligned with the future.

As a Software Engineer
, you’ll be a vital member of one of our agile Digital Squads, small, cross‑functional teams aligned to specific areas of the business. Together, you’ll be focused on maximising the value of digital products, driving innovation, and delivering high‑impact solutions.

Our squads follow Agile Scrum and Dev Ops principles and work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI Designers, User Researchers, and other engineers. Collaboration is key, and you'll also partner with key teams like Architecture, Security, and Service Operations to ensure what we build is secure, reliable, and aligned with organisational standards. Our goal? To create digital products that are user‑led, high‑performing, and future‑proof empowering our business day in, day out.

As a hands‑on, agile Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving cloud‑based software products. This includes everything from design and estimation to coding, cloud infrastructure management, and supporting live products and platforms in production.

While you’ll typically work within your squad, there will be opportunities to lead on specific products or technical components as the subject matter expert and spend time enhancing your personal skills and knowledge.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Manage your own workload using Kanban boards, staying focused and self‑motivated

• Collaborate closely with your team to align on goals and priorities

• Contribute to agile retrospectives and help improve how we work, from tools to processes

• Advise and support Product Owners, translating requirements into innovative, scalable solutions

• Own the detailed system design, ensuring best practices and engineering standards are met

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architecture, Security, and Analysts to break down user needs into deliverable software features.

• Create high‑level designs, estimate work, and define non‑functional requirements (e.g. performance, security, monitoring).

• Act as a technical consultant, contributing to testing strategies and upholding Dev Ops best practices.

• Design, build, configure and maintain software products and cloud infrastructure using modern development practices.

• Implement deployment strategies (CI/CD), write user documentation, and support disaster recovery planning.

• Lead on testing (TDD, BDD, automation), participate in peer reviews, and provide third‑line support when needed.

• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies, including stand‑ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and show & tells.

• Help refine the product backlog, reduce technical debt, and continuously explore new tools and techniques.

• Promote a transparent, user‑focused culture aligned with Scrum values and Anglian Water’s mission.

We’re after a proactive, solutions‑driven Software Engineer who thrives in a collaborative, agile environment. You’ll bring a passion for…