Job Description

Job title – Software Engineer
Location – Malvern, UK. 2 days onsite, 3 days home working
Role benefits – Flexitime: (core hours 10.00am - 12.00pm and 2.00pm - 3.00pm) to help you to achieve a good work-life balance + Benefits + 25 days holidays

Partners in Discovery. Together, we achieve more.

About the role

As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing high‑quality software within Malvern Panalytical’s R&D team, for our physical characterisation instruments at the Malvern Centre of Excellence. You will work across a mix of incremental improvements and cutting‑edge, multi‑disciplinary projects, delivering software into scientific and industrial instrumentation used across diverse global markets. Your work will directly support product innovation and empower our customers explore, understand, and improve the materials that shape our world.

What you'll be doing:

• You will build software components using C#/.NET and C++, contributing across the stack from device control and data acquisition to user interfaces, with guidance on overall software architecture.

• You will modernise existing code through thoughtful refactoring, improving test coverage, introducing contemporary design patterns, and coordinating changes to minimise delivery risk

• You will apply strong engineering practices by following object‑oriented design principles, writing clean and maintainable code, participating meaningfully in code reviews, and adhering to established architectural patterns

• You will prioritise thorough testing, clear documentation, and effective tooling to deliver reliable and scalable software

• You will contribute to Agile delivery by participating in refinement sessions, providing estimates, and breaking down work, delivering iteratively with feedback loops, and collaborating to keep work flowing smoothly

• You will support knowledge sharing by pairing with peers, contributing to technical discussions, and offering constructive feedback

• You may offer targeted mentoring to junior engineers on specific tasks.

• You demonstrate curiosity, openness, and a willingness to learn from others while developing your own depth of expertise

About you:

• 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 enjoy solving meaningful technical problems, take pride in producing high quality software, and collaborate effectively with others.

• You are eager to grow your engineering skills, contribute to a supportive team culture, and

What's in it for you?

• Flexitime, hybrid working and an opportunity to work on complex, innovative analytical software systems.

• 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

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About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps.
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.