Software Engineer

Background

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.

At Motion Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future
. Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive, transportation and motor sport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

We want to help reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable.

Our focus is on electrification, telemetry, control and analytics.

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motor sport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future
.

As a Software Engineer in the Data Platforms Team, you will work on a variety of challenges to design and deliver complex products and solutions for our ATLAS (Advanced Telemetry Linked Acquisition System) suite and other related systems. You will be passionate about technology and eager to use the most effective and applicable technologies, to create robust and scalable software.

You will work on a variety of challenges to deliver complex products and solutions, which ultimately enable race engineers and strategists to access powerful, race‑winning insights in F1 and other motorsports series.

Our software combines many capabilities, including data capture, visualisation and modelling of real‑time and historic data for detailed analysis, reporting, anomaly detection and enabling the best strategic decisions to be made.

Through clean and consistent coding, you will contribute to optimise our methods of data streaming, aggregation, manipulation, modelling and visualisation.

• Developing and maintaining the ATLAS software suite
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Field Application Engineers to understand and resolve race issues
• Analyse user requirements, for both validity and feasibility
• Detect, document and track software defects and inconsistencies
• Apply quality assurance principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities, in collaboration with the Data Platforms team
• Meeting or exceeding our unit test case code coverage
• Working with other developers to support pull‑requests, peer‑reviews and knowledge transfer
• Contribute to release planning and burndowns by providing development estimates
• Writing technical documentation
• Identify risk and escalation appropriately when required

• First class degree or upper 2nd in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience)
• A thorough understanding of Software Engineering principles
• Proficiency in C#.NET
• Experience using the WPF framework
• Experience using SQL
• Experience using Git version control with development and release branching strategies
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Azure Dev Ops
• Good understanding and practice of agile project management frameworks
• Ability to work both as part of a team and individually
• High attention to detail and solid analytical skills

• Experience with graphics API’s (e.g., Direct
  
  X or similar)
• Experience in C++ / CLI
• Experience in database/application scaling, optimisation and monitoring
• Experience with time series databases
• Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka
• Experience and understanding of building products on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure and GCP and micro services
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed (e.g., Python, Angular, React)
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (e.g., Autofac)
• Experience in distributed computing, machine learning, data science
• Experience with building data pipelines, data streaming applications
• Experience in, or enthusiastic, about motor sport

In return for everything you bring to the table, we can…