Altium is hiring a

Senior Software Engineer

Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

 

⚡️ Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

  • Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
  • More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
  • We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

About the Role:

Altium technology helps to improve the lives of millions by empowering anyone to turn concepts into reality. Across the business we are continuing to advance our cutting-edge platform, used today by design engineers and procurement professionals around the world. The initial focus of this role will be within the API & Analytics team focusing on the powerful platform API. As part of the Global Engineering group – a business unit inside Altium with a mission to build the electronic industry’s developer platform of tomorrow – we will enable our partners and the wider electronics ecosystem to develop in an unprecedented way, driving a new era of automation and intelligence for the electronics industry. 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to become a key member of an extremely passionate and capable team here in Cambridge’s technology heartland. You will be a driving force of our software engineering team as we continue to build and scale our technology to meet demands. Your voice will be heard as you shape the future. You’ll be working alongside some of the brightest minds, bringing to life new products, services and capabilities. From high-performance search, to data modeling, holistic API design, large scale data processing, and artificial intelligence / machine learning algorithms, you’ll have the opportunity to really make a difference in the world of electronics design. Your skills, expertise and experience will play a critical role in the continued design, implementation and delivery of the platform and the success of its customers.

Who you are:

  • First and foremost, you’ll be a natural problem solver. 
  • You can quickly understand complex problems; and are able to systematically dissect and design solutions for them. 
  • You flourish in a rapidly changing environment requiring a diverse range of activity. 
  • You will be someone who cares. The size and 24/7 availability of our platform is fundamental to our customers’ success. This means careful consideration needs to be given not only to the platform’s construction and infrastructure, but also to its deployment, maintenance and monitoring. 
  • With a passion for technology, it is the application of technology to solve a problem that drives your thinking and approach. 

What you’ll need for this position:

  • Have worked for 5+ years in software development, having been exposed to complex problems and having played significant roles in the design and implementation of large software systems. 
  • Have experience across different programming paradigms and languages, with a focus on OO software design and implementation; ideally you worked with C#
  • Possess a strong conceptual and analytical mindset, being able to think in an abstract context and articulate, explain and sell ideas and approaches to other stakeholders. 
  • Have experience in designing intent-based APIs to common standards. 
  • Have experience leading other engineers working toward a common goal and understand what is important to ensure people align to achieve a great outcome. 
  • Have experience with cloud-first system design and infrastructure, having built, deployed and maintained applications and services on providers such as AWS. 
  • Have a sound understanding of common technology stack components, including but not limited to RESTful services, relational database systems and ORM frameworks.
  • You should hold a Bachelors / Masters / Doctorate Degree in information technology, engineering or a related field.

Benefits

  • 🏥 Private health insurance including dental coverage
  • 🌅 Pension scheme with company match up to 9% 
  • 🧘 nilo.health + Calm App, mental health and wellbeing support 
  • 📚 Professional development support
  • 🥳 Employee referral and employee-of-the-month programs
  • 🏖 28 days' holiday + public holidays and special leave
  • 🖥 Home internet and remote working allowance 
  • 🏡 Flexible working arrangements available based on role and location
  • 👶 Enhanced family and special leave
  • 💪 Corporate membership rates with national gyms
  • 🥪 Free lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office
  • 🚗 Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle, and scooter storage

🎯 What Matters to Us

  • Big-thinking in pursuit of purpose
  • Diversity of thought
  • Courage of conviction
  • Transparency of intent
  • Ingenuity of AND
  • Agility in action
  • Adaptability of approach
  • Grit in pursuit of mission

🌍 Also, we would like you to know

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

💡 Learn more about why a career at Altium is an opportunity like no other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYCOLpPLPE 

✈️ Altium Benefits: https://careers.altium.com/#s-benefits 

👏 Are you already an Altium employee? Please apply directly through our internal Greenhouse job board. If you have questions, please contact HR.

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