Senior Embedded Software Developer in Maidstone

Salary Range: £50,000 to £60,000

Location: Harrietsham, Kent

Application and Interviews: The job advert closes on the 3rd April 2026, with 1st stage telephone interviews and second stage face-to-face interviews scheduled to be held in April 2026.

Hybrid Working Opportunity: This role is eligible for the hybrid working benefit, requiring the successful candidate to attend our Harrietsham office three days per week, with the flexibility to work from home up to two days a week once deemed competent to work independently and in line with the business needs. Applicants must be UK-based and live within a practical commutable distance of our office. Hybrid working is a benefit at Bedfont and not a contractual term.

The Story: Established in 1976, Bedfont is an award-winning medical technology company based in Harrietsham, Kent. Its breath analysis medical devices are exported globally thanks to its network of carefully selected distributors.

The Challenge: Healthcare is evolving, and the market for breath analysis monitors is expanding. Bedfont are looking for hard-working, like-minded, and passionate individuals to join the Bedfont Family to help achieve its goal of innovating healthcare worldwide.

The Benefits:

• 25 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
• Social events
• Private medical insurance
• Subsidised health checks
• Well-being warriors
• Well-being garden and room
• Annual optical allowance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension scheme
• Bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Rewards app
• Referral bonus
• Charity days
• Home office setup allowance
• Employee awards
• Free on-site parking
• Training & development opportunities
• Free uniform
• Subsidised Celler8 device
• Subsidised kids club
• Time in service annual leave bonus
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Job Summary: The Senior Embedded Software Developer will play a key role in designing and delivering safe, reliable firmware for the company’s current and next generation medical devices. This position leads development across bare metal platforms, defining high quality software requirements, architecting secure and efficient solutions and driving rigorous implementation and testing practices. Working closely with cross functional engineering, quality and regulatory teams, the Senior Embedded Software Developer ensures all software meets stringent safety, cybersecurity and compliance expectations while contributing to the creation of innovative, high performance medical products.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead cross functional collaboration to define compliant, scalable software architectures and solutions.
• Drive technical decision making by interpreting schematics, datasheets and system architecture to guide robust software design.
• Author and review high quality, testable, traceable software requirements aligned with system needs, risk controls, cybersecurity and regulatory expectations.
• Architect, implement and document IEC 62304 compliant firmware, including low level drivers, communication protocols and HALs.
• Produce and approve design, interface and regulatory documentation that supports submissions and design reviews.
• Champion secure coding, defensive programming and threat aware design across the team.
• Define unit test strategies and ensure comprehensive requirement coverage and early defect detection.
• Guide and perform board bring up, sensor integration, hardware validation and low level debugging on bare metal platforms.
• Lead and mentor participation in design, code, risk and cybersecurity reviews to uphold quality and compliance.
• Perform and direct structured debugging, root cause analysis and use of industry standard diagnostic tools.
• Support the Test Engineers in ensuring full bidirectional traceability across requirements, design, implementation and tests.
• Enforce disciplined configuration management, change control and defect tracking practices.
• Oversee investigation and resolution of embedded software issues from testing, production or customer service reports, ensuring proper documentation, risk assessment and cybersecurity evaluation.
• Identify systemic process, quality and security gaps and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and vision during Innovation Days and other forward looking technology initiatives, especially in emerging embedded and bare metal technologies.

Qualifications and Education Requirements: BSc in Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering or similar certification. Minimum 5 years of industry experience designing and implementing bare-metal embedded software in CE.

Essential Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of industry standard communication interfaces, including USB, SPI, IC and Bluetooth.
• Proven ability to debug embedded systems effectively in a hands on lab environment.
• Adaptable and able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast paced setting.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities with a structured approach to problem solving.
• Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment and accountability.
• Comfortable working independently and making sound technical decisions with minimal oversight.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to engage clearly across teams and stakeholders.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with C++, Python, C# or Dart.
• Knowledge of RTOS concepts and implementation.
• Engaged, articulate and highly collaborative working style.
• Motivated, proactive and effective in cross functional engineering environment.

In addition, employees may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required of them. In these circumstances training will be given where it is considered.

Bedfont Scientific Ltd. does not and will not discriminate in the recruitment or management of staff on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation and more. We are an equal opportunity employer, and Bedfont regards every employee as a member of the Bedfont family and is committed to providing a fair, safe, diverse and welcoming atmosphere. Our application process has been designed so that everyone is able to demonstrate their skills and how they meet the criteria required for the job advertised. All successful candidates will be subject to a digital ID and DBS check.