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Software Engineer - Embedded Systems

Shillito Group
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Last week
£36,000 pa

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£36,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
20 May 2026 (Last week)
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We are delighted to be supporting a Sheffield based, international manufacturing business with the recruitment of a Software Engineer - Embedded Systems.

Reporting to the Senior Electronics Design Engineer, your role includes the design, development and testing of software development and maintenance. You will identify issues and work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders (internally and externally) to support continuous improvement of existing products and processes.

You should be a practical, curious software engineer who enjoys solving real problems and learning new things as requirements evolve.

The role:

  • Develop, Maintain and problem solve the current aspects of software within the current product portfolio and future products.
  • Reduce time to market of new features, on time delivery
  • Improve response to failures/bugs
  • Produce maintainable, well-structured and well-documented code
  • Backend development
  • Frontend/UI work
  • Integrations and APIs
  • Automation and tooling
  • Cloud/infrastructure tasks
  • Embedded software and firmware development
  • Helping shape technical decisions
  • Working closely with Hardware, including microcontrollers, device communication and low level systems.

You:

Shillito Group is a specialist recruitment and executive search partner, working with ambitious businesses to secure high-impact talent across commercial and engineering markets. Our reputation is built on deep expertise, trusted relationships and delivering results that go beyond the brief.

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