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Software Engineer Job Description: Top Duties and Qualifications

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Last updated 5 November 2025
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A Software Engineer, or Software Developer, creates computer programmes. Their primary duties include coding, identifying and fixing bugs and recommending programme developments.

Software Engineer duties and responsibilities

Software Engineers complete several tasks during their workdays. Duties and responsibilities may vary depending on the employer or area of speciality. However, they typically include:

  • Analysing client and user requirements
  • Writing code that creates new programs that satisfy requirements
  • Writing code that develops existing programs to add features or make them more efficient
  • Testing code and making adjustments until programs work reliably as required
  • Identifying and correcting program bugs
  • Writing technical specifications and instructions in collaboration with Technical Writers
  • Recommending new programs and technologies to clients and supervisors

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Software Engineer Job Description Examples:

Example 1

What you’ll be doing

ZedSoft is providing a fantastic opportunity for a bright and enthusiastic individual to work with us as a full time software engineer at NEXUS. Due to further growth in the business, we are currently in need of a full-time developer to join us at ZedSoft to develop and apply various technical skills such as working on cloud projects, cloud deployment, website development, app development, [website], [website], [website], JavaScript and more.

The contract is for 3 months but there is a high possibility of it being renewed and extended.

Why choose ZedSoft?

Our technology is constantly evolving, so there’s never a dull moment with ZedSoft! Our team is made up of creatives, innovators, linguists, and collaborators from all corners of the world, and we work with the brightest and most original thinkers across various industries. We will offer other benefits such as working flexibly from both your home and office location.

What this role requires
  • Contract Type: Full-time contract
  • Full-time or Part-time: Full-time (3 months)
  • Starting Date: ASAP
  • Hours: 37.5 hours per week
  • Work Type: Flexible (From home and office)
  • Office Work Location: Nexus, Discovery Way, Leeds, LS2 3AA
  • Equipment: Laptop with at least 8GB of ram, intel 4th Gen i5 processor or above / AMD equivalent

What skills & experience you’ll bring to us
  • 2+ years in software development
  • Knowledge in both front-end and back-end development
  • Essential to have worked and knowledge in Cloud Deployment, [website], [website], [website] and Google Cloud Projects

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £650.00-£675.00 per week

Ability to commute/relocate:
  • Leeds, LS2 3AA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:
  • Bachelor's ID: ZS001

Example 2

Assistant Monitoring Software Engineer £30k-£34k DOE, St Helens

My client, a well established national business in the Construction Sector is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work within their growing Engineering Monitoring division.

The key responsibilities of the role include: -

  • Maintain data acquisition and management software, ensuring ongoing development is achieved in a timely manner
  • Assess monitoring and interpret captured data to determine and predict effects
  • Provide technical support to monitoring engineers and depots
  • Managements of data systems (SIM's)
  • Design and improve data acquisition systems
  • Provide and maintain high levels of customer service to exceed customer expectations

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following minimum requirements: -

  • Use of Labview / C++ & Matlab
  • IT / Telecommunications / Web Design
  • At least 3 years experience operating at engineering level in the UK
  • Full, valid UK Driving Licence
  • CSCS qualification

While a Degree in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Information Technology is preferred, applications are welcomed from candidates that can as a minimum, evidence HNC / HND in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Information Technology.

In return, the successful candidate will enjoy a salary of £30k-£34k DOE, pension and bonus potential.

They will also be part of a high achieving, profitable and growing part of a well established, respected business.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a highly effective team, in a high achieving part of the [website]'t waste [website] you meet the above mentioned criteria, send me your CV today!

Applicants must of course already have the right to live and work in the UK.

Assistant Monitoring Software Engineer £30k-£34k DOE, St Helens

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,000.00-£34,000.00 per year

Benefits:
  • Company pension
Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
  • Bonus scheme

Experience:
  • C++: 3 years (preferred)
  • LabView: 3 years (preferred)
  • Matlab: 3 years (preferred)
  • working in the UK at engineering level: 3 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:
  • United Kingdom Location: One location

Example 3

Role:Software Engineer
Location:Hybrid – Dorset / Home
Salary: DOE £30,000 - £40,000

We are seeking a passionate Software Engineer to join our small technical team here in Dorset. As an Software Engineer at X-Net you’ll work closely with our team of experienced professionals on the design and build of cloud-native business applications that support our innovation services.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, evaluate new technologies, and ensure quality and security are at the heart of everything you do. If you’re passionate about agile development and cloud-native technologies you’re the type of person we want to hear from. Come join the team and continue building your experience in a unique and interesting environment!

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop cloud-native applications to meet business requirements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new services and features.
  • Continuously evaluate and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to other team members.
  • Support business applications, including bug fixing and improving performance.
  • Develop code and tests to support fully automated build and deployment.
  • Collaborate with DevOps to ensure systems are built and deployed via automated CI/CD pipelines.

Key Technologies in Use:
  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
  • Containers
  • AWS
  • SQL and NoSQL Databases
  • GitHub (including Actions)
  • Terraform
  • Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

Design Principles:

Our systems and services follow these core design principles:
  • Cloud First
  • Everything as code
  • Containerized deployments
  • Secure by design
  • Buy, don’t build
  • Reuse components
  • Single function components
  • Single Sign-On
  • Adopt Zero-Trust architecture principles
  • Continuity of user experience
  • Intuitive user interfaces

If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technologies and want to contribute to innovative solutions, apply now!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £30,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in ID: X-Net10020

Example 4

Job Summary

The Senior Software Engineer is accountable for developing, designing and recommending innovative software solutions for interfacing or integrating business applications for medium to large projects, with a degree of complexity. Using senior-level abilities and experience, the Senior Software Engineer will apply strong knowledge of programming techniques, languages and computer systems to mentor or lead the work of others in more complicated design and programming requirements.

Job Accountability & Scope

  • Working within a team environment, interpreting program or project objectives, specifications and requirements
  • Writing applicable program codes and commands, testing and implementing process changes
  • Enabling technology-based process improvements and user efficiencies

Essential Functions / Job Responsibilities & Duties
  • Understand product requirements, designing, coding and testing towards building the next generation of products
  • Work with product and process owners to extend the application into new functional areas.
  • Collaborate with Business Analysts to enrich and expand requirements as well as driving product design.
  • Deliver useful and reliable software solutions through high-quality code and process integrity.
  • Break down Epics into individual stories that can be assigned to other team members
  • Review design approaches and conduct code reviews of junior members of the team
  • Collaborate with other team members to complement, complete and improve the development processes.
  • Ability to set work priorities and multi-task effectively
  • Troubleshoot and fix any feature issues identified internally or in the production deployments.
  • Alter programs, as necessary, to increase operating efficiency or to adapt to new requirements.

Qualifications & Experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in the design and development of OOP Java-based or similar applications
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in the design and development of web-based applications
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
  • Experience working with relational databases
  • Experience with REST API development
  • Experience with Github
  • Experience with TDD
  • Experience working with Agile software development methodology
  • Experience with Oracle, SQL Server or Postgres useful
  • Experience with javascript (ex. jQuery, Dhtmlx) useful
  • Experience with BDD testing (CucumberJVM) useful
  • ElasticSearch, Kakfa, Spark useful

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £45,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Benefits:
  • Flexible schedule
  • Work from home
Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday

Experience:
  • OOP Java based or similar applications: 5 years (required)
  • Hands on experience in design and dev of web apps: 5 years (required)
  • With cloud platforms (Azure, AWS): 2 years ID: GR001SE

Example 5

Position:Embedded Software Engineer

Salary:£40,000 - £50,000

Location of Office:Manchester

Location of work: WFH Hybrid Model – 2 days a week working from home

Skills Required:

· Embedded C and C++

· RTOS

· Microcontroller/ Microprocessor experience (8, 16, 32 bit)

· Communication protocol experience e.g. SPI, I2C, UARRT, USB, RFID, BLE

An established electronics business based in East Manchester require an Embedded Software Engineer to join its R&D team. This is the opportunity to join a successful and privately owned electronics business who do all R&D development and manufacturing out of its Manchester office, with the business having sales offices all over the world.

You will be joining the business at an exciting time as you will be working on a major platform development for two new handheld devices. You will be tasked with doing the embedded firmware development and the GUI user interface design for both battery powered devices (the devices will be powered with double AA batteries). In this role you will be developing RTOS based real time embedded C/C++ software for 32-bit ARM Cortex M4 Microcontrollers.

This opportunity offers you the chance to work in a medium sized R&D team, where you will work closely with other Software, Electronics, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineers.

You will work on projects from concept through to production, and there is opportunity to work on a wide range of device developments, as the company has a wide portfolio of existing devices which is only set to grow due to customer demand.

Skills Required:

· Embedded C and C++

· RTOS

· Microcontroller/ Microprocessor experience (8, 16, 32 bit)

· Communication protocol experience e.g. SPI, I2C, UARRT, USB, RFID, BLE

Desirable skills and experience:

· FreeRTOS

· ARM Cortex M3/4 microcontrollers, STM32, NXP iMX, TI MSP

· Developed software for low powered/ handheld devices

· BLE or Bluetooth experience

On offer is a strong salary and benefits package plus the chance to work from home 2 days a week, as well as flexible working hours. They have a friendly, enthusiastic environment with clear paths for career development for the right Embedded Software Engineer.

If you are interested in this fantastic, unique opportunity contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 today.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:
  • Casual dress
  • Flexitime
  • On-site parking
  • Work from home
Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay scheme

Example 6

Our client is a leading UK driverless vehicle and mobility company expanding internationally and on a mission to find the very best people to be part of our success and join the driverless revolution that will disrupt and transform the world of transport. Due to year on year growth they are recruiting an experienced Path & Motion Planning Engineer for it's Autonomous Vehicles R&D Team.


You will have real vehicles running in Coventry for testing. You will work with other team members to solve and integrate work from 3 different continents (Europe, Australia, Asia). The team is very diverse, and always look for people with high quality and good grasping of different domains in robotics and outside robotics. Team always urge You to design and give your opinion and request inquisitive, creative minds to solve our challenges.


Roles:
  • Research, design and develop state-of-the-art algorithms in one or more areas of the Motion planning stack to ensure comfortability and safety
  • Guiding creation of simulation scenarios and create metrics to measure the performance of latest development
  • Working with other team members to discuss and plan new algorithms and strategies
  • Optimize the runtime and memory efficiency of the onboard Motion Planning software
  • Get inside the vehicle and see the results
  • Document, review and maintain high-standard code.






Essential Requirements:
  • Deep expertise in Motion planning and Software engineering.
  • MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics or related field
  • Experience in deploying autonomous systems in real-world scenarios (ideally in Autonomous Vehicles but any other filed is acceptable)
  • Experience specifically with applying Machine Learning to solve motion planning or related robotics problems
  • Experience working with one or more MP sub-areas such as: graph or sampling-based planning in high-dimensional state spaces, computational geometry, behavioural planning and decision making, planning under uncertainty (POMDPs etc.), model-predictive planning and control, convex optimization, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, etc.
  • Strong skill in modern C++/Python , ROS 1&2 , unit tests, containerization (Docker) and software engineer best practices.
  • 3+ years of industry experience writing production-quality, performance-critical code, and maintaining large codebases is desired.







In return, they offer a great package that includes training, development, succession planning, a structured career path and a healthy bonus related to hitting key personal and company milestones.

If joining a growing cutting-edge technology organisation with great prospects in an emerging £billion sector and working with a brilliant motivated team appeals to you, please apply with an up to date CV as soon as possible, along with your availability and your salary expectations.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:
  • Company events
  • Company pension
Schedule:
  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
  • Bonus scheme
  • Performance bonus



Application question(s):
  • How much relevant experience/ qualification do you hold?
  • Any key achievements in your current role?
  • Putting money to one side, what else motivates you?
  • When could you start?

Work authorisation:
  • United Kingdom (preferred)


Work Location: In person


Reference ID:

Example 7

Application Software Engineer

A unique opportunity for an Application Software Engineer to join an industry-leading security consultancy based in Derbyshire, responsible for developing critical cybersecurity solutions for both Government organisations, and other providers. Offering a brilliant opportunity to see your work be instrumental in keeping information secure.

Location:Derby – due to security nature of this role it is 5 days on site.

Salary: £40,000 - £70,000 per annum + excellent benefits

*Requirements for Application Software Engineer:*

  • Ideally, you will have at least 2 years working in a commercial applications software role, although strong graduates who have a year in industry, will be considered
  • Strong design and coding skills
  • Ideally you will have experience in both C# and C++ but either will be considered
  • Understanding of computer networking
  • Keen interest in security (you don’t need prior experience)
  • Given the consultancy element of the role, you will need to be great at understanding requirements and suggesting solutions
  • Any experience on the following technologies would be beneficial: Embedded development, RUST, scripting languages, test automation tools
  • Due to the nature of the role, this client requires the applicant to be in a position to obtain high level security clearance, therefore, can only accept applications from British Citizens who can obtain DV security clearance once they have started working (i.e. lived in UK for past 10 years, no criminal record etc)

*Responsibilities for Application Software Engineer

  • Analysis of customer requirements to produce maintainable designs as well as collaboration in unit tests
  • Creating high integrity software, based on formally defined specifications and focused on functional correctness
  • Understand requirements and produce solutions
  • Code reviews
  • Produce documentation
  • Work closely within a highly collaborative team

What this offers:

  • Excellent salary and benefits
  • An excellent opportunity to witness your contributions playing a pivotal role in ensuring information security.
  • Excellent working culture with a varied and interesting workload

Applications:

If you would like to apply for this brilliant opportunity, we would love to hear from you. Please send an up-to-date CV via the relevant link.

Keywords-
C/C++ / C# / Software Engineer / Application Developer / Software Developer / Application Engineer / Software Programmer / Application Architect / Systems Developer / Software Designer / Software Analyst / Application Programmer / Software Development Engineer / Full-Stack Developer / Front-End Developer / Back-End Developer / Mobile App Developer / Web Developer / Software Development Specialist / Software Development Consultant / Software Development Manager / Product Developer

*********************************************************************************

RedTech Recruitment Ltd are a technical recruitment consultancy. Even if the above role isn’t of interest, please visit our website to see our other opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at RedTech. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00-£70,000.00 per year

Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday

Work Location: In ID: AERRD01
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What does a Software Engineer do?

Software Engineers code new computer programs and develop existing ones. Depending on their employer, they may work on computer games, business software or operating systems. Software Engineers create programs that are user-friendly and efficient. They constantly revise programs to make sure they serve customers better. They also correct bugs within their programs to boost reliability and performance. Software Engineers typically work within groups of IT specialists. They might collaborate with Analysts, Designers and Testers.

Software Engineer skills and qualifications

Software Engineers rely on a range of skills for their success. Businesses employing new Software Engineers look for candidates with the following skills:

  • Fluency in common programming languages including C++, Java and Python
  • Technical understanding of front-end web technologies, operating systems and platforms
  • Verbal and written communication, especially making complex concepts more accessible
  • Diagnostic skills for identifying why programs that do not meet requirements and how to improve them
  • Problem-solving for improving programs and resolving bugs

Software Engineer experience requirements

People can become Junior Software Engineers after graduating from university. These courses give students experience working with coding languages and web technologies, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Many university courses also have work placements. Placements give students practical experience working in business environments.

Junior Software Engineers must have several years of professional experience before getting a senior role. MANY companies employing Senior Software Engineers prefer candidates who have experience leading IT teams and using a variety of coding languages and technologies.

Software Engineer education and training requirements

Software Engineers generally need at least a bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline. Degrees in computer science, computer software, computer systems engineering and information systems are the most beneficial. Employers may also consider candidates with degrees in electronics, mathematics or physics. They may also consider candidates with non-technical degrees if they have good technical knowledge. Many large companies require candidates to have a 2:1 degree or above in a computing-related field. Some employers may also consider hiring Software Engineers with Higher National Diplomas in computer-related subjects, instead of a degree.

Enroling in a postgraduate IT conversion or technical postgraduate course can give candidates with non-computer-related degrees more relevant skills. Software Engineers must enrol in professional development courses throughout their careers to understand new technologies.

Software Engineer salary expectations

According to Indeed Salaries, the average salary of a Software Engineer is £43,064 per year. Salary may vary according to experience, location, employer and area of specialty.

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