Software Designer (C/C++)

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your software development expertise in a cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside collaborative and innovative teammates. You'll play a key role in ensuring the software for our Signalling System meets its functional, safety, and availability targets. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (such as software architects, hardware designers, and integration teams), contribute to software specifications and architecture, and develop and test software components, among other responsibilities. You’ll specifically take care of software development using C/C++ and configuration management, but also support hardware/software integration and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

We’ll look to you for:

• Contributing to the elaboration of the software specification and architecture in collaboration with the software architect
• Developing software components, including detailed design and coding
• Setting up the software development toolchain
• Specifying, designing, preparing, and performing tests and verifications of deliverables
• Ensuring software work products are under configuration management
• Supporting software/software and hardware/software integration
• Staying informed of technological advancements through techno watch
• Contributing to the standardization of solutions, including implementing reusable solutions and COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf)
• Applying processes and standards to ensure quality
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems (or a related field)
• At least 3 years of experience in software development
• Experience in software development using C/C++
• Knowledge of Linux, networking, and protocols
• Familiarity with scripting languages and shell utilities
• Experience using tools such as Git, GitLab, and PC-Lint (optional)
• Experience in formulating subsystem requirements and technical writing
• Experience in vital or secure software development (an additional advantage)
• Experience in the railway domain (an additional advantage)

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Work with new security standards for rail signalling
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our flexible and inclusive working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Progress towards senior software engineering or technical leadership roles
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)