Software Developer

Software Engineer / Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, Hybrid / £35,000 - £45,000 Per Annum D.O.E.

Are you an experienced Software Engineer looking to join a leader in geospatial services for the Electric Utilities market? At NM Group we're now seeking an ambitious individual to help evolve our pioneering technology. At NM Group, we prioritise your long-term career growth and potential, offering a role tailored to your strengths within our dynamic team.

What We Offer:

• A competitive Salary of between £35,000 - £45,000 depending on experience.
• Comprehensive Benefits including Private pension matching, Bupa dental cover, Salary Sacrifice schemes (EV, Cycle scheme), holiday trading, education & development reimbursement, enhanced maternity & paternity pay, EAP, and retail discount perks
• Flexibility: Supportive working environment with 60% remote typical.
• Impact: A collaborative role where you'll contribute directly to our core technology stack.

You’ll work on meaningful engineering projects, solve technical challenges alongside the team, and help improve our existing codebase while growing your skills in an agile, supportive environment.

Required Skills & Experience of the Software Engineer:

• Strong Python: Writing and maintaining data pipelines.
• Able to solve complex problems.
• Excellent written, oral and visual communication skills to explain complex information.
• Enjoys and works well in a team-based environment, and is self-motivated to individually succeed.
• Understands and implements best practices of modern Software Engineering including Agile Software Development, Automated Testing, Configuration Management principles and DevOps.
• Has the rigour and care to manage and control changes to development, testing and production environments.

Desirable skills & experience

• C# / .NET: experience building libraries and command-line tools with .NET 8.0+.
• Comfortable reading and safely modifying existing/legacy codebases; good documentation and PR practices.
• SQL Databases: PostgreSQL and SQLite experience (schema design, migrations, basicperformance tuning).
• Orchestration & data engineering: experience with workflow/orchestration tools (Prefect or similar) and distributed task queuing (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ).
• Testing & automation: writing unit and basic integration tests as well as automating test runs as part of CI pipelines e.g. GitHub Actions.
• AI-assisted development: comfortable using AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to increase productivity, while validating and testing any AI-generated code and understanding its limitations.
• Experience building or maintaining REST APIs, microservices, event-driven services, and message-driven patterns.
• Containerisation: experience using Docker and deploying containerised applications

Nice to have:

• GIS & point-cloud processing: GDAL/PDAL, GeoPandas, Open3D, LAS/LAZ/Raster/Vectorhandling, spatial transforms and analysis.
• TypeScript/JavaScript for developing front-end dashboards and user interfaces.
• Packaging & distribution: familiarity with publishing and versioning packages (NuGet and/or PyPI).

About NM Group:

NM Group optimises the performance of electricity networks by remotely sensing and serving the position and condition of our client's assets. From mapping and presenting spatial data on an electrical network through to modelling and displaying a 3D virtual network environment we deliver value to electricity network operators. Further information can be found on the company website.

What's Next?

Applicants must be resident in the UK and hold valid, legal right-to-work status in the UK.