Backend Software Engineer

Full Job Description

This job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test, measurement and data analytics industry. You will be a strong contributor collaborating closely with colleagues from various business functions.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

The Position

We are searching for a high-calibre Back End Developer to join the HBK Physical Test Software team.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced developer to join a team at the forefront of our innovation activities and to benefit from further certifications and industry specific training to grow their career.

We have embarked on a journey to modernise our coding practices, tooling and products so this is a great time to join us and bring your enthusiasm for our drive to continuously improve.

In this position you will join a brand-new scrum team to deliver an exciting new-to-the-market engineering software product. You will undertake SW development activities within a team and be responsible for the execution of a range of activities across the full software development life cycle, in line with our Agile delivery methodology within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Key Responsibilities

• New product development

• Software design

• Software development, quality, and testing

• Documentation

• Planning

Key Qualifications and Experience

Must have:-

• Demonstrable expertise in C#, .NET and Python

• Some C++ experience

• Sound experience of MVC and ASP

• Experience of working within a fully automated CI/CD cloud hosted environment

• Good knowledge of automated testing and best practices around that

• A good working knowledge of secure coding practices

Desirable:-

• TDD, BDD and Trunk Based Development

• REACT, Javascript, CSS and HTML skills or willingness to learn

• Experience of or willingness to learn about working within the Scaled Agile Framework

• Interest in Engineering especially mechanical engineering, strain gauge applications, vibration or fatigue analysis and signal processing.

• Curious about AI and about how our technology can change lives for the better

Personal Skills

• Support and actively promote inter-cultural working and champion the HBK values of Own It, Be True and Aim High.

• Enjoy discussing engineering problems/solutions and be open to changing your opinion

One company – HBK                                            

On 1 January 2019, Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged their activities into a new company called HBK (Hottinger, Brüel & Kjær). With more than 3,000 employees worldwide and production facilities in Denmark, Germany, the UK, the USA, China and Portugal and presence in 80 countries, HBK becomes a leading player in the test and measurement area. For further info please visit

HBK currently operates within the Test and Measurement segment of Spectris, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company.

Application deadline

Please submit your application and CV by using the direct application link.

Please note that we will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis.