We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our dynamic Digital team, with experience of developing Mobile applications for IOS and Android devices utilising .NET MAUI technologies. 

Our vision at Arnold Clark Digital is to give our customers an outstanding, integrated and personalised digital experience, ensuring Arnold Clark is easy to do business with and remains one of the leaders in the car retail and mobility industry. 

Why choose us?  

33 days’ holiday allowance with room to grow   Flexible leave   Private healthcare   Life assurance   Training opportunities   Generous employee discounts   ... and much more!  

Location

This is a hybrid role, with your time spread between your home and our Head Office in Hillington, Glasgow. 

Hours:

Full time: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours per week. 

About the role 

As a Software Engineer at Arnold Clark, you will be key to delivering our vision of creating market-leading digital products that will put us at the forefront of retailing. Placing our customers at the heart of everything we do, you will transform their experience and drive our business forward.  

This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in some impactful and high-profile projects, collaborating with a team of talented and enthusiastic people who are focused on doing things ‘the right way’. We appreciate individuals who are excited by the prospect of working every day on challenging problems, while collaborating and exchanging knowledge with their teammates.  

Skills and Day-to-day activities 

Programming/Software development: Design, code, test, document, and refactor complex programs and integration services, while applying standards, tools, and security measures to achieve well-engineered results. Monitor progress, identify issues, and propose solutions. Participate in reviews of your own work and that of colleagues. Software design: Design moderately complex software applications or components, collaborate with your team to specify interfaces and evaluate options. Consider both functional and non-functional requirements to achieve a secure, robust, scalable, and maintainable solution.  Specialist advice: Provide detailed advice to support the planning and operations of mobile applications. Actively maintain knowledge in mobile software technologies and collaborate with other specialists to ensure advice given is professionally sound and appropriate.  Systems integration and build: Produce builds from system components using appropriate build automation tools and processes. Conduct tests as defined in an integration test specification and records the details of any failures. Analyse and report on integration test activities and results, and identify and report issues and risks. 

Essential knowledge and experience  

Demonstrable commercial experience of mobile development for iOS and Android using C# and .NET with Xamarin and more recently MAUI.  Strong understanding of mobile application architectures.  Our databases secure our customers’ data and underpin our application performance. You should have good experience with SQL technologies and a clear understanding of performance and security considerations.  Experience with developing for cloud platforms. We regularly use Azure, Kubernetes and Azure SQL.   Experience and understanding of Agile methodologies and practices. An agile mindset is core to our culture.   Experience and understanding of CI/CD, automation (e.g. IaC) and collective code ownership practices, with tools including Azure DevOps & GitHub. 

Nice to have but not essential  

Comfortable working with some or all of Java, Swift, and AWS. You may be helping to re-write and modernise a system currently built on these technologies. 

At Arnold Clark we are adopting SFIA Version 9 framework for all roles that require digital / IT skills. In the case of this role, we have reviewed the required skills and skills levels that we regard as essential. To find out more about SFIA and version 9 of the framework, you can visit: https://sfia-online.org/en 

You may be asked to evidence how you are already operating at these skill levels if you are invited to interview with us. 

Arnold Clark is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, unique perspectives and multiple approaches are celebrated. We care about our employees and our communities, we nurture talent and encourage ambition, and we are passionate about people who take pride in their work. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do – diverse in our make-up, united in our goals. To find out more about Life at Arnold Clark, visit our website. 

Employment within the Arnold Clark Group is offered subject to satisfactory reference and disclosure checks.