Contract Software Engineer

Spectrum IT are seeking an experienced Contract Software Engineer to join a leading business and technology consultancy client; this role will ultimately support a Central London End client (Soho area) and will be for an initial 6 month contract. 1 day onsite per week in London and the role has been deemed INSIDE IR35.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high-quality software solutions and tools that meet product and business needs.
• Collaborates with principal engineers and architects in defining and championing best practices.
• Create software solutions that integrate with monitoring and operations tools.
• Write clean, efficient code following good design patterns and promotes these practices across their team.
• Lead research activities such as technical spikes and proofs of concept to explore problems and possible solutions.
• Lead troubleshooting and issue resolution activities across the software life cycle.
• Actively tests their code using automated test-driven techniques and ensuring high code quality and coverage.
• Participates and leads collaborative activities such as pairing and code reviews. Supports, coaches and mentor junior engineers, promoting technical standards.
• Actively collaborates with product owners, other engineers and testers in defining acceptance criteria and ensuring good quality user stories.
• Participates in planning and estimation activities and assists with the successful delivery of software from inception to production environments.
• Writes, reviews and maintains technical documentation.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proactive, and result oriented.
• Excellent communicator and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Expertise in object-oriented programming languages (Java, C#)
• Expertise in scripting languages: Bash, Python or Ruby
• Test-driven development practices (TDD, BDD, etc.)

Suitable candidates for this role will be required to complete an online skills test to showcase your role and tech suitability.

Compiled by : Aaron Giles
Compiled on : 19/08/2026

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.