Engineering Software Team Leader

January 16, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Engineering Software Team Leader

Company: People Source Consulting

Job description: Role: Software Team Lead

Location: Shepton Mallet, Somerset

Salary: £60,000 approx

Benefits: Plus, company benefits; health care, training budget, 21 days annual leave, option to purchase additional leave, pension, health cash plan, Employee Assistance Programme.

Officer Hours:

Start between 7:30am-9am, Monday to Friday, Finish between 4.00pm-6.00pm Monday to Thursday, 2.00pm Friday Hybrid working (currently 3x days + in the office per week)

Daily Roles:

  • Leading a team of Software Engineers.
  • Ensuring the team is efficient and productive, whilst maintaining a high standard of work.
  • Assigning tasks and responsibilities within the team, meeting appropriate deadlines.
  • Monitoring projects through the lifecycle design process
  • Requirement specifications, high level design, development and test documentation.
  • Implementation of software development procedures.
  • Maintenance and enhancement of existing products including direct 3rd line support for client’s engineers and technicians and Field Service Engineers.
  • Development of new products.
  • Software build management.

Initial project:

  • Support for new system development.
  • Review software development procedures.
  • Getting to know the Software Team.
  • Requirement and design specifications.
  • Development, proving and test reports.
  • Help topics and operational manuals.

Key Skills:

  • Broad software development experience. real time processes, database,
  • GUI development, Qt
  • C++/C,
  • Linux or Windows development environment – inter process comms – RPM/Installer
  • TCP, Serial comms.

Desirable skills:

  • Embedded, 32-bit microcontroller, ARM, PIC.
  • GUI development.
  • Java, Python, PHP, SQL, BASH, HTML.
  • Subversion.
  • PostgreSQL/SQLite Eclipse, Visual Studio
  • Autotools.
  • I2C, One Wire comms, PCI Bus.

How to apply?

Please send a CV to

People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.

Expected salary: £55000 – 65000 per year

Location: Somerset

Job date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 07:14:11 GMT

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