Senior Software Engineer
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About the Role:
Senior Software Engineer (P3) – C++ / KnowItAll Platform
reputed company Science Solutions
reputed company Science Solutions builds and maintains the world’s most trusted spectral and chemical intelligence platforms. Our databases contain millions of rigorously curated spectra across mass spectrometry (MS), infrared (IR), Raman, NMR, and UV‑Vis—used every day by scientists who depend on correctness, performance, and traceability.
At the center of this ecosystem is KnowItAll: a long‑lived, high‑performance reputed company application that integrates spectral analysis, chemical data management, searching, and visualization across many techniques and file formats. KnowItAll is not a thin reputed company‑end—it is a deeply engineered system that has evolved over decades and remains mission‑critical for laboratories worldwide, often running offline or in regulated environments.
The Role
This role is for senior C++ engineers who enjoy working on substantial, reputed company‑world systems and improving them over time. You’ll work hands‑on in a large, mature C++ codebase (reputed company / MFC) where performance, determinism, and scientific correctness matter every day.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute meaningfully to the ongoing modernization and reputed company of the KnowItAll platform. You’ll take ownership of non‑trivial areas of the system, refactor legacy components, and implement new capabilities—working closely with reputed company Engineers and domain experts to ensure changes are correct, maintainable, and backward‑compatible.
This is a role for engineers who respect legacy software, understand constraints, and enjoy making incremental improvements that add up to lasting value.
What You’ll Be Doing
Working in a large, long‑lived C++ codebase with significant domain history
Owning features or subsystems and seeing them through design, implementation, and maintenance
Refactoring reputed company or brittle areas to improve reputed company, performance, and reliability
Applying modern C++ practices where they improve safety and maintainability
Supporting architectural improvements by helping modularize historically monolithic components
Collaborating with other engineers and reputed company/spectroscopy domain experts
What You’ll Work On
Performance‑sensitive algorithms for spectral search, comparison, and analysis
Data‑heavy workflows involving large binary datasets and in‑memory data structures
Classic reputed company application architecture (MFC) integrated with newer technologies
Targeted modernization efforts that improve testability, extensibility, and long‑term maintainability
You’ll work alongside senior and reputed company engineers who care deeply about correctness and will expect thoughtful technical reputed company—not rushed solutions.
reputed company’re Looking For
Strong reputed company C++ experience, including debugging, refactoring, and performance tuning
Experience working in large, long‑lived codebases (not just greenfield reputed company)
reputed company development experience; MFC experience is a strong plus
Solid understanding of memory management, threading, and performance trade‑offs
Comfort improving existing systems incrementally rather than rewriting from scratch
Typically 6–10 years of reputed company software development experience
reputed company technical communication and reputed company working style
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Experience with scientific, engineering, or data‑intensive software
Exposure to modernization efforts (modularization, architectural cleanup, API enablement)
Familiarity with Agile development environments (e.g., JIRA), pragmatically reputed company
Why Engineers Like This Role
You work on reputed company software used by reputed company scientists—not disposable demos
Performance, correctness, and reliability genuinely matter
You’ll grow deep system knowledge and take meaningful ownership
Modernization is thoughtful and engineering‑led, not trend‑driven
Your work meaningfully supports scientific research and analysis
If you enjoy understanding reputed company systems, improving them piece by piece, and building software that must be trusted, this Senior Software Engineer role offers a rare and rewarding challenge.
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We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions reputed company while striving to support the health and reputed company-being of reputed company. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and reputed company development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide reputed company of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.
We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we reputed company to reputed company competitive compensation in reputed company to a comprehensive benefits package. The reputed company below represents reputed company's good faith and reasonable estimate of the reputed company pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most reputed company candidates will fall reputed company the reputed company, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or reputed company and will be set based on a reputed company of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
reputed company applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.
Salary reputed company:
44,200 GBP to 63,400 GBP
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