VB Software Engineer in London

The team consists of a diverse set of components, including front and back end technologies. Our Scrum teams have the opportunity to work with a varied set of technologies and code base. This vacancy is within a Titian Software Scrum team specialising in desktop applications integrating with automated liquid handlers from a multitude of hardware vendors. The team will be developing new enhancements to a mature VB6 application crucial to many large pharmaceuticals and bio‑tech companies, and assist with longer term modernising of the application.

You will join a Scrum team with 3-5 other developers and a tester. At least one of the developers or the team leader is very experienced (5+ years) and helps with the designs and maintaining the quality via code reviews. For the customer requirements, the team can rely on experienced (often 10+ years) application consultants knowing the customer processes. Our developers and application consultants come from different backgrounds (software engineering, natural/applied sciences, pharmaceutical) and different countries. With flexible working hours, remote working options, casual dress code and frequent social events, this creates a friendly atmosphere to work in.

The challenge involves a single product with a modular architecture, allowing us to extend our core functionalities effortlessly to provide robust and meaningful solutions for our customers. This requires an initial challenging design to make the change optimal for the most customers. The pharmaceutical/biotech sector is sensitive to quality, as they perform expensive and high‑throughput operations. Code quality is a major metric for us, supported by useful procedures and guidelines that everyone adheres to. We also have a product built robustly to handle errors from external sources or events safely and gracefully.

Our customers are security‑oriented, which became more challenging with our recent SAAS offering on AWS infrastructure. We started with a limited set of packages and are slowly extending this to the whole product range, providing enough delightful challenges even for the most experienced developers.

The process begins with requirements from customers that our application consultants and software team members analyse and break down into gaps. The scrum team working on the project further breaks this down into functional user stories. We keep the customer updated throughout the process, often providing periodical releases for testing and production. Before releases, we conduct in‑house UAT execution of the whole business processes. For actual releases, scrum team members often go to customer sites to supervise the first testing, especially when integrating with new machines, robotic platforms, or external software systems. We have a strong track record of projects finished on time, to budget, and to customer satisfaction.

The opportunities for our software engineers include progressing on a technical track (Senior Software Engineer with tech lead role), a management track (Software Team Leader with project manager role), or a consultant track (Application Consultant with client‑facing roles), depending on their interest. As a small company, we encourage people to define their ideal roles and strive to provide them.

Qualifications: We seek candidates who enjoy algorithmic challenges, can produce quality code, have experience with relational databases and Visual Basic 6, and preferably at least one year of commercial experience. Experience with C#/.NET, ASP/ASP.NET is a plus.

Additional Information: Other benefits include flexible working hours, partially remote working option, Pluralsight subscription, social events, contribution to certifications, pension, cycle scheme, and flexible annual leave allowance. Central London location.