DESCRIPTION

Arqit is a global cybersecurity company delivering quantum-safe encryption to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Powered by its advanced symmetric key cryptography, the Arqit SKA-Platform™ offers scalable encryption that is resilient to quantum threats. The platform allows devices to seamlessly generate and share secure encryption keys, ensuring robust data protection across sectors like telecoms, defence, and finance. Stronger, simpler encryption.
We are looking to expand our software team with individuals who are interested in joining a fast-paced, exciting tech scale-up. We can offer you fun and interesting work in cloud cybersecurity, and we have a great team culture that gives you the opportunity to innovate, take ownership, and scale new heights in your career. On offer is a friendly office environment (close to Victoria, Westminster and St James park stations) with considerable flexibility around working from home, and the challenge of working in a complex environment where no two days are the same.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Arqit you will join a diverse and talented group of experienced software engineers, system architects, DevOps and QA providing the opportunity to further develop both technical and leadership skills as the company continues to grow. We are looking for an enthusiastic technologist who can adapt to the needs of the team, have a passion for learning and a constant desire to expand their knowledge.

You will work on the SKA-Platform™, our pioneering cyber security product, and in the process learn a diverse set of skills that enable you to implement and deploy a cutting edge microservice based architecture. Additionally, you will develop new and existing cyber security products and applications that leverage the features of our proprietary SKA-Platform™.

• Develop software for the SKA-Platform™ working under the guidance of our software architects, senior engineers.
• Transform architectural models into component designs ready to be incrementally developed, tested and deployed.
• Collaborate closely with your team of software, automation and DevOps engineers to implement, review, test and deploy full-stack software changes.
• Analyse the metrics of your deployment changes, ensuring high resiliency and performance is maintained, resolving issues if they arise.
• Fixing issues found internally and by our customers.
• Actively participate in Agile development activities and rituals, supporting the growth of the team and its members.
• Being open to receiving feedback and being willing to offer constructive feedback and support to others.
• Working closely with the Product Management team to help further refine requirements.
• Follow a career path towards senior engineering roles

You will join a friendly and supportive Agile Scrum team that work in a fast-paced environment and takes responsibility for the full delivery cycle of new features, from requirement through to production, following best practice engineering principles in the process.

You will work on the SKA-Platform™, our pioneering cyber security product, and in the process learn a diverse set of skills that enable you to implement and deploy a cutting edge microservice based architecture. Additionally, you will develop new and existing cyber security products and applications that leverage the features of our proprietary SKA-Platform™.

• Develop software for the SKA-Platform™ working under the guidance of our software architects, senior engineers.
• Transform architectural models into component designs ready to be incrementally developed, tested and deployed.
• Collaborate closely with your team of software, automation and DevOps engineers to implement, review, test and deploy full-stack software changes.
• Analyse the metrics of your deployment changes, ensuring high resiliency and performance is maintained, resolving issues if they arise.
• Fixing issues found internally and by our customers.
• Actively participate in Agile development activities and rituals, supporting the growth of the team and its members.
• Being open to receiving feedback and being willing to offer constructive feedback and support to others.
• Working closely with the Product Management team to help further refine requirements.
• Follow a career path towards senior engineering roles.