Software Engineer

Who are we:

In 2019, our founders were working as engineers solving complex cross domain problems in defence and security organisations.

TwinStream was formed to consolidate their collective expertise and experience into one business, providing technical excellence and exceptional service to their clients. We have teams working both on-site with clients and remotely from home.

Salary: £70,000 to £90,000

Location: Remote, with potential travel to the Bristol office in the future.

Security: BPSS, but must be eligible to obtain DV clearance.

About the role:

TwinStream software engineers (Java) develop components of a cross-domain security system within an agile development team. They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle, which includes understanding the need for change, software design, coding, testing, delivery, and support. A TwinStream software engineer is not just a coder; they comprehend the business and domain challenges and utilize their technical skills to address those issues.

Responsibilities:

• Understand high-level requirements and collaborate to find solutions
• Investigate technologies to gain a deep understanding of their applicability
• Develop high-quality code
• Problem-solving deeply technical issues
• Build tests at all stages of development from, unit tests to acceptance & performance tests
• Build deployment code and pipelines, consulting with DevOps specialists
• Analyse and resolve issues from 3rd line support
• Collaborate in code development and review colleagues’ work
• Participate in indicative estimating & planning
• Any other reasonable duties relevant to skills and experience.

Key Skills

• Experience in developing software using our core and/or related technologies
• An agile development mindset
• Experience in agile working practices including
• TDD
• BDD
• Continuous delivery
• DevOps
• Pair programming
• Estimating & Planning
• Open, honest & positive attitude

Core Technologies

Java is the primary development language. Some exposure to other languages is useful, including Python, JavaScript, Golang, Bash Scripting, although these languages are used only occasionally.

The following technologies are used extensively in our solutions:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• AWS – S3, Fargate
• RDBMS (Postgres, Oracle) & JPA
• Mongo DB
• REST
• Rabbit MQ
• Docker
• Linux
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Jenkins
• GIT/Bitbucket
• Kubernetes

Desirable Skills

• OpenShift
• Docker Compose/Swarm
• Terraform
• Ansible