About the role
About Us
Motion Applied are the global leaders in electronics for top-tier Motorsport with more than 35 years of Formula 1 heritage and pedigree. We supply the world’s leading racing series with control and interface units, sensors, software and electrification technology designed and built in-house. We deliver high performance and reliability, backed by continuous product development and a relentless focus on innovation.
Building on our Motorsport core we operate across multiple industries. We take technology born from the demands of top-tier Motorsport, where performance, reliability and innovation are pushed to the limit, into new markets to deliver breakthrough outcomes for our customers. From developing next-generation products to supporting critical customer programmes, our teams play an important role pioneering a better future for mobility, electrification, analytics, intelligent systems and beyond.
We recognise sustainability challenges ahead and continuously strive to build a better future through the development and application of our products.
Driven by legacy and powered by innovation, we are committed to creating an environment where talented people can grow, collaborate and make a meaningful impact while helping our customers achieve success.
Purpose of the Role
As a Software Engineer in the Data Platforms Team, you will work on a variety of challenges to design and deliver complex products and solutions for our ATLAS (Advanced Telemetry Linked Acquisition System) suite and other related systems. You will be passionate about technology and eager to use the most effective and applicable technologies, to create robust and scalable software.
You will work on a variety of challenges to deliver complex products and solutions, which ultimately enable race engineers and strategists to access powerful, race-winning insights in F1 and other motorsports series.
Our software combines many capabilities, including data capture, visualisation and modelling of real time and historic data for detailed analysis, reporting, anomaly detection and enabling the best strategic decisions to be made.
Through clean and consistent coding, you will contribute to optimise our methods of data streaming, aggregation, manipulation, modelling and visualisation.
Principal Accountabilities
* Developing and maintaining the ATLAS software suite * Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Field Application Engineers to understand and resolve race issues * Analyse user requirements, for both validity and feasibility * Detect, document and track software defects and inconsistencies * Apply quality assurance principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle * Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities, in collaboration with the Data Platforms team * Meeting or exceeding our unit test case code coverage * Working with other developers to support pull requests, peer reviews and knowledge transfer * Contribute to release planning and burndowns by providing development estimates * Writing technical documentation * Identify risk and escalate appropriately when required
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience
Essential
* First class degree or upper 2nd in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience) * A thorough understanding of Software Engineering principles * Proficiency in C# .NET * Experience using the WPF framework * Experience using SQL * Experience using Git version control with development and release branching strategies * Familiarity with CICD pipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps * Good understanding and practice of agile project management frameworks * Ability to work both as part of a team and individually * High attention to detail and solid analytical skills
Desirable
* Experience with graphics API’s (eg. DirectX or similar) * Experience in C++ / CLI * Experience in database/application scaling, optimisation and monitoring * Experience with time series databases * Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka * Experience and understanding of building products on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure and GCP and micro services * Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed (eg. Python, Angular, React) * Experience with dependency injection frameworks (eg. Autofac) * Experience in distributed computing, machine learning, data science * Experience with building data pipelines, data streaming applications * Experience in, or enthusiastic, about motorsport
What we can offer you
In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.
At Motion Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.
* Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues). * Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay. * Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working. * Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary * Opportunity to join the Motion Applied Pension Plan * Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate. * Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful completion of their probationary period.
Who we are
Motion Applied are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.
Motion Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. Motion Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.