Software Engineer – Embedded Systems

Company: Shillito Group
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Location: Sheffield
Job Description:

We are delighted to be supporting a Sheffield based, international manufacturing business with the recruitment of a Software Engineer – Embedded Systems.

Reporting to the Senior Electronics Design Engineer, your role includes the design, development and testing of software development and maintenance. You will identify issues and work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders (internally and externally) to support continuous improvement of existing products and processes.

You should be a practical, curious software engineer who enjoys solving real problems and learning new things as requirements evolve.

Role Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain and problem-solve the current aspects of software within the current product portfolio and future products.
  • Reduce time to market of new features, on-time delivery
  • Improve response to failures/bugs
  • Produce maintainable, well-structured and well-documented code
  • Backend development
  • Frontend/UI work
  • Integrations and APIs
  • Automation and tooling
  • Cloud/infrastructure tasks
  • Embedded software and firmware development
  • Help shape technical decisions
  • Work closely with hardware, including microcontrollers, device communication and low level systems

Qualifications

  • Degree in Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related technical discipline
  • Solid programming fundamentals
  • Modern web technologies and UI frameworks
  • Experience with Python, C/C++, JavaScript and/or similar languages
  • Git and collaborative development workflows
  • Databases and APIs
  • Cloud platforms
  • Embedded systems or firmware development
  • Interest in both software and hardware environments
  • Ability to work independently and figure things out
  • Comfortable working across different parts of a system
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • A good communicator at all levels with a proven ability to work as part of a team
  • Exceptional analytical and proven solving skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Good time management with the ability to focus on task completion
  • Experience in organisations with ISO9001 quality management systems
  • Good understanding of compliance related aspects of product software

Please apply for immediate consideration

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Posted: May 23rd, 2026