Vodafone Hiring for IoT Software Engineer Job at London, England Full Time

Job Responsibility

IoT Software Engineer

Role purpose:
Building great products that delight our customers and transform the way they engage with us is why we’re here. Our next challenge is to leverage our world-class capability and make waves in the exciting world of IoT solutions. Creating useful products and transformational user experiences begins with lots of prototyping and plenty of iteration. It culminates in careful attention to edge cases and error handling, polished code, and great tests to ensure that we ship a delightful experience that never compromises data integrity or security. Every solution we develop has the potential to make a real difference to our customers so we need to get it right. We care deeply about collaboration, feedback, and iteration. Trust and respect are deeply rooted in our engineering culture. This is an exciting and diverse role where you need to solve real world IoT problems using Vodafone’s own connectivity and application platforms, but also 3rd party devices and services where required. It requires a passionate technologist with a broad base of skills, clear thinking, an appetite and ability to learn new skills and technologies, and an instinct for the art of the possible.

In this role you’ll be responsible for developing, prototyping, testing and deploying new IoT solutions for our business customers. You will be working in a start-up environment to develop a high visibility innovative product. You will have a mindset to take responsibility of the delivery of project components, good at communicating with the geographically distributed team, and excited about creating the best possible solution. You will be able to work independently in a start-up like environment with a “get it done together” mindset. You’ll have the ability to communicate design concepts to peers, senior management and customers through design documents, user guides and application notes.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

• Design, develop and test code for our IoT products (platforms and devices) and provide supporting documentation
• Design, develop & maintain common components across our product portfolio
• Evaluate & test new platforms & tools
• The role is focused on cellular based IoT platform, so knowledge of SIM and wireless communication systems will be an advantage

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• Good relevant degree or transferable and proven (5 or more years) prior experience with software development, including as many as possible of the following:

o Knowledge of mobile cellular communication systems
o Technical understanding of IoT based infrastructure, architecture and implementation
o Experience of software development using cloud environments, e.g. AWS, Azure IoT
o API design & development
o Code management and continuous integration
o Automated Testing
o Knowledge of embedded systems and transport protocols (e.g. IP/UDP/TCP, CoAP, MQTT, …)
o Experience of embedded software development (e.g. C/C++) and scripting languages.
o Experience of IoT device integration and testing

• Strong problem solving and new product creation skills
• Experience in troubleshooting problems using technical expertise and problem-solving skills to help restore service, identify root cause and remediate.
• Agile, Scrum, Kanban, JIRA