Senior Software Engineer - (Java + Angular)

About the Company

Smiths Detection is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security. Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer role delivers scalable, secure, and maintainable software by solving complex problems and applying modern architectural patterns. It drives Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices while leveraging skills in Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Acting as a bridge across engineering, QA, and operations, it enforces secure coding, embeds observability, and fosters collaboration to ensure high‑quality, seamless product deliveries.

As per company policy, this role requires presence in the office 4 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple development teams within the Platform & Application development organization.
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious
• Propose architectural design in alignment with business requirements and able to justify technically the design considerations between the different available technologies.
• Assess, review, test and implement various architecture and design patterns and work with the delivery teams to ensure alignment to the architecture.
• Have oversight into architecture, working with your technical leads to ensure the systems and solutions you develop are flexible, loosely coupled and deliver performance that is appropriate for business needs.
• Ensure an efficient software methodology is in place, aligned to agile / lean principles, learning, and iterating frequently, highly collaborative, and regularly improved.
• Pick up a software component and contribute to hands-on development.
• Aligning to the DevOps principles and tool sets being established with high degrees of automation throughout the development process. Continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous operational monitoring are baseline goals.
• Ensure that security, reliability scalability and performance are embedded into the team skills, development process and architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience (4 to 8 years) in software development.

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in modern front-end and back-end technologies such as Angular (v10+), Java, and Spring Boot .
• Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern UI frameworks/libraries .
• Hands-on experience with automated unit and integration testing frameworks (e.g., Jasmine, Jest, Karma, JUnit, PyTest, Go testing , Testify etc.).
• Experience with web components, micro front end architecture , responsive UI development .
• Strong expertise in API design, gRPC, RESTful services , and development of scalable web-based applications.
• Practical experience in Python or Golang development, microservices-based application design, domain-driven design (DDD), and distributed systems principles.
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or similar SQL databases) and Redis
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes .
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated build and release processes.
• Working knowledge of modern data architecture.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, and JIRA.