Software Engineer - Croydon, England, United Kingdom; Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Janes empowers military, government, and defence leaders to act with confidence in an increasingly complex world. Our trusted defence, security, and geopolitical information delivered through seamless digital platforms and system integrations—turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable intelligence and insight. By filling critical information gaps, Janes helps customers analyse threats, accelerate decisions, and stay ahead of emerging challenges.

Job purpose: We are seeking a Junior Software Engineer with an interest in working with interesting data. You will be working as part of a multi-functional team based in either Croydon or Manchester, helping to shape our deliverables within our Single Intelligence Environment. You should be self-motivated, a natural problem solver who wants to deliver high quality with high efficiency across the software delivery lifecycle.

How you will contribute at Janes:

• Be part of an Agile team contributing to the design, coding, testing and delivery of applications and services.
• Work with the following technology areas: NoSQL, such as DocumentDB/MongoDB; RDF Graph database such as GraphDB; Data pipeline engineering utilising cloud-based technologies (AWS).
• Write high quality clean, testable code, with a focus on incremental innovation.
• Take part in code and design reviews helping to improve overall software quality.
• Deliver high quality, scalable maintainable solutions.
• Identify and drive opportunities for adopting new technologies.
• Utilise Data Engineering skills and knowledge to ensure high quality datasets of differing types, including structured, NoSQL and graph.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring quality on transformations and applying best practice such as data retention, quality, security, coverage and accuracy.
• Build high quality data delivery systems to be consumed by customers, including different output types and delivery cadences.
• Build best in class API experience for customers.
• Share knowledge, promote and coach standards and best practice.

The ideal skills and experience for this role are:

• 1-2 years experience in software engineering, owning outcomes and driving standards.
• Technically curious, tackling problems to ensure impactful outcomes and producing solutions that raise the standards with the engineering group.
• Collaborative, team player, works well with others.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Proficiency with the SDLC.
• Understanding of cloud technologies especially AWS.
• Experience delivering solutions and impact in agile environments.
• Good understanding of system design.

27 days of annual leave. Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing). Private medical insurance – BUPA. Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay). Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks). Life cover. Access to LinkedIn Learning. Access to an on-site gym (Only in Croydon).

Our Mission: Creating trusted open-source intelligence has always been our focus. Janes foundational defence intelligence, across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, and defence industry, is verified and validated using our human-centric tradecraft to deliver the highest levels of assurance.

Technology at Janes: To support our Tradecraft we need the best technology solutions and capabilities, particularly in an increasingly complex world with exponentially accelerating volume of relevant information accessible. To respond to this challenge Janes has invested heavily in Technology, both in terms of people and software development.

Life at Janes: We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.

Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender. Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believes that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business.