Software Engineer - Ciriu

Job Description:

At Cirium we are proud of our heritage, since 1909, the very early days of flight where we were the first to bring forward aviation insights on this fledgling industry. We have transformed significantly over the years and we are proud of the future business we are building together. Our people are at the centre of who we are. Whatever your background you are welcome. We are looking for talented and dynamic team players who focus on delivering successful outcomes.

We are a business where three out of our seven leaders are women, over 20 languages are spoken, where some leaders have grey hair and some have purple. Where our sales teams take time out to support local schools and our product teams champion local women back into the workplace.

Some things you might not know about Cirium:

• Cirium provides data and analytics to leading aviation and air travel companies - our clients come from many market sectors globally including airlines, airports, travel companies, aircraft manufacturers, governments, and financial institutions.
• Our data is used by over 95% of the top 50 airline groups globally, which represents circa 80% of the world’s airlines passenger traffic; four out of five of the world’s top five major search engines, and was supplied to NATS (National Air Traffic Services) streamlined London Heathrow traffic management system (XMAN) which delivers 15,000 tonnes of CO2 savings per year.
• Cirium tracks 98% of flights globally in real-time, and has the largest certified aircraft appraiser team in the world.
• Cirium has 14 offices worldwide across the UK, Americas, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific and with a strong remote-worker community.
• One of our offices is alongside a runway and another has its own pub, The Goose.
• We celebrate our global diversity through events and networks throughout the year.
• Cirium is part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, which is part of RELX, a FTSE 100 traded company.
• Our benefits stand out – they even include two days a year for you to dedicate to the charitable activity of your choice.
• Cirium and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group are founding members of the Tech Talent Charter, committed to increasing the ratio of women and under-represented groups working in technology.

Job purpose:

• Do you want to make a big difference as a key member of a small, highly collaborative team? Are you excited about creating leading-edge software to solve challenging problems? Do you thrive on the open exchange of ideas with bright colleagues who share your love of the craft? If you are a talented software developer who cares about these things as much as we do, we want to hear from you!

• We are currently looking for a skilled Developer to join our Cirium tech group to help build and enhance the end-to-end stack that allows our customers to query and analyse vast amounts of aerospace data. This fast-growing tech group is responsible for a wide variety of tasks on our analytics platform, supporting customers in insurance, airline, banking and a substantial number of other airline related industries.

Key accountabilities / responsibilities:

• Work closely with the team to analyse and conceptualize the design of products and requirements.
• Convert product requirements into deliverables, set priorities, and establish timelines.
• Design, write, test and deploy production-ready code.
• Install, troubleshoot, debug and support a variety of software products and services that product features are built upon and developed against.
• Successfully implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Operate in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Contribute to an innovative culture by driving excellence in working practices, tools and technologies.

Key skills required (to be successful in this role):

• Demonstrable commercial software development experience
• Experience with developing highly concurrent, scalable and secured applications.
• Full stack experience using C# ideally with Angular/TypeScript, with emphasis on strong .NET/.NET Core skills.
• Python desirable
• Experience of working with GIT (Highly desirable)
• Experience developing REST-like, JSON-based microservices.
• Familiarity with Amazon cloud-based services and the Linux operating system.
• Ability to troubleshoot performance, capacity, and scalability issues.
• Experience with SQL/PostgresSQL and data analytics a plus.
• Ability to complete moderately complex bug fixes.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).
• Good oral and written communications skills.
• About LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group

Cirium operates under the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, a portfolio of brands that span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics and decision tools and data services. Our brands provide market-specific solutions that help our customers solve problems, make better decisions, stay compliant, reduce risk and improve their operations. Serving customers in more than 180 countries, with approximately 8,700 employees, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group is a part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

Women in technology:

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 26.4% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

• Mentoring scheme for women in technology
• Women’s network forum
• Regularly run events for schools girl about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in tech.

RSG proudly support the Tech Talent Charter. Click on the link to find out more.

At Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 35 diversity employee networks globally and prioritise ensuring inclusive leadership is part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

We encourage applicants and employees to tell us about any health issues they may have to allow us to put in place reasonable adjustments that may support applicants in the application process and support employees to succeed in their role.