Senior Engineer

Role Purpose

Location- UK

Level - Experienced Professional

Department - Product R&D

Working Pattern - Remote

Benefits - Benefits at Ideagen

Salary - To be discussed at next stage

As a Senior Engineer within Decani, you'll lead the delivery of complex software initiatives across one of Ideagen's flagship EHS & Quality platforms. Used by 18,500+ customers worldwide, Decani helps organisations in highly regulated industries manage critical safety, quality, compliance, and operational workflows.

Working on one of Ideagen's strategic growth products, you'll lead the delivery of complex software initiatives, solve challenging engineering problems, and help define the technical standards that underpin a scalable, secure, and modern platform. You'll combine hands-on development with technical leadership, mentoring engineers, influencing architectural decisions, and driving engineering excellence across the team.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on a product that helps organisations operate safely, remain compliant, and continuously improve in some of the world's most highly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex software features, enhancements and technical initiatives that support product growth and customer outcomes.

• Provide technical leadership within the squad, helping engineers make sound design, architecture and implementation decisions.

• Establish and maintain high standards of engineering quality through code reviews, testing strategies and software design best practices.

• Mentor engineers across the team, helping improve technical capability, delivery effectiveness and engineering confidence.

• Review technical specifications and identify opportunities to improve scalability, reliability and long-term maintainability.

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development approaches and share best practices that improve engineering productivity.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives.

• Contribute to broader technical initiatives that improve platform quality, engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes.

Skills and Experience

• Strong commercial software engineering experience delivering complex products, services or enterprise applications.

• Deep understanding of software design, architecture and engineering best practices.

• Experience owning technically challenging initiatives from concept through to production delivery.

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence technical standards within development teams.

• Strong appreciation for software testing, maintainability, performance and engineering quality.

• Experience working closely with Product teams to balance technical decisions with commercial priorities.

• Experience in AI-assisted development practices and modern software delivery methodologies.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Preferred experience - strong backend experience (Java preferred), front end (Vue.js), with cloud technologies (AWS) - alternatives considered

As a business, we place great value on collaboration, knowledge sharing and building strong relationships across our teams. Therefore, for candidates living within a 35-mile radius of Nottingham, this role will follow a hybrid working pattern, with three days per week based in our Ruddington office. Please also note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this opportunity and can only consider applicants who already have the right to work in the UK.

About Ideagen

Ideagen is the invisible force behind many things we rely on every day - from keeping airplanes soaring in the sky, to ensuring the food on our tables is safe, to helping doctors and nurses care for the sick. So, when you think of Ideagen, think of it as the silent teammate that's always working behind the scenes to help those people who make our lives safer and better. Everyday millions of people are kept safe using Ideagen software. We have offices all over the world including America, Australia, Malaysia and India with people doing lots of different and exciting jobs. We’re building a future-ready team, and AI is part of how we work smarter. If you're curious, adaptable and open to using AI to improve how you work, you’ll thrive at Ideagen!

What is next?

If your application meets the requirements for this role, our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps.

To ensure a flexible and inclusive process, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments by contacting us at [email protected]. All matters will be treated with strict confidence.

At Ideagen, we value the importance of work-life balance and welcome candidates seeking flexible arrangements. If this is something you are interested in, please let us know during the application process. Enhance your career and make the world a safer place!