Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help drive innovation within Malvern Panalytical's R&D team, developing software for our physical characterisation instruments at the Malvern Centre of Excellence. You'll work across a mix of incremental improvements and cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary projects, delivering and integrating high-quality software into scientific and industrial instrumentation used across diverse global markets.

Your work will directly influence product innovation and business growth, making a tangible impact on how our customers explore, understand, and improve the materials that shape our world.

What you'll be doing:

• You'll bring confidence working from low-level device control and data acquisition through to intuitive user interfaces and smooth integration with native components
• You will support effective Agile delivery through well-structured refinement, reliable estimation, iterative delivery, and continuous feedback loops that keep work flowing efficiently
• You champion quality, demonstrated through the consistent use of object-oriented design principles, clean and maintainable code, thoughtful code reviews, and adherence to established architectural patterns
• You'll bring a commitment to comprehensive testing, clear documentation, and modern development tooling to ensure quality, reliability, and scalability

• You have a passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards, helping to foster a culture of learning, growth and continuous improvement
• You are fluent in C#/.NET and comfortable with C++ with the ability to design, develop, and integrate robust software solutions across the full desktop stack
• You're effective in both greenfield and legacy codebases, modernising safely while sustaining delivery
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and practices, such as contributing to regression automation or working with tools like Playwright or BDD frameworks-to improve reliability, coverage, and delivery speed
• An interest in science, engineering, or instrumentation
• You thrive as part of a collaborative team, being open minded to diverse technical perspectives and leading by example
• You are self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

• Be a part of an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture
• Drive growth within a leading global organisation whose purpose is to work with our customers, to make the world a better place
• Be a key member of our team in our amazing offices, with a hybrid working model available
• Access to an onsite restaurant
• Gym discounts
• Volunteering days and much more

Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies. We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery. Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure. Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity. SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments. We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support. We are part of Spectris. Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do - our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive. Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps Your Partners in Discovery Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn't something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us.