Senior Software Engineer

### Meet the recruiter

#### Amy Lammie

### Benefits

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Additional holiday purchase opportunities

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%

Enhanced family leave & policies

Share plan schemes

Free health & wellbeing services

Green car scheme

### Senior Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team based in Exeter. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.

Location: Exeter / remote

Hours: 42.5 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Salary: starting from £50,000 per year

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

Are you…

Able to independently take ownership of technical work from initial requirements through design, implementation, testing and delivery

Experienced with SQL and designing relational database schemas, relationships, constraints and data models

Proficient in Python with experience developing backend applications, services, integrations or automation in production environments

Comfortable working with complex datasets, making decisions around how data should be structured, validated, transformed and maintained

Experienced in consuming or developing REST APIs and integrating software with internal or third-party services

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be working within the Development team, supporting them in delivering technical solutions and maintaining operational services.

You'll have the autonomy to take ownership of projects from initial requirements right through to delivery, working collaboratively with stakeholders to design and implement solutions that make a real difference. Much of the work involves large and complex geographic datasets, so you'll need to be comfortable working with both data and software, making key decisions around data models, database design and system architecture. You'll also play an important role in maintaining and improving existing production services, ensuring they remain reliable and efficient.

Your day to day will include

Taking ownership of technical workstreams from initial requirement through solution design, development, testing and implementation

Designing, developing and maintaining backend applications, automation and geospatial data-processing solutions

Working with stakeholders to understand requirements and recommend appropriate technical solutions

Designing and evolving database schemas, data models and supporting processes

Investigating and resolving complex technical issues affecting live services, implementing sustainable fixes

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

• Location: Exeter
• Vacancy ID: 12349
• Background check: None
• Closing date: 4 Jan 2027
• Contract type: Permanent
• Working hours: Full Time
• * Flexible working: Yes
• Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
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