Senior Software Engineer

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 experienced Software Engineers with expertise in one of a number of identified technical areas, who have a strong background working with complex data, comprehensive experience in developing, high impact scalable systems, transforming and delivering complex datasets, and showing a high appreciation for data quality

.You will be working as part of a multi-functional team based in either Croydon or Manchester, shaping our deliverables within our Single Intelligence Environment. You should be self-motivated, a natural problem solver, and used to operating at a high-performance level in CI/CD environments, acting as a driver to ensure quality deliverables 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.
• Have technical expertise in one or more of the following technology areas:
• NoSQL, such as DocumentDB/Mongo
• DBRDF Graph database such as Graph
• DBML/AI such as Sagemaker/Bedrock
• Search technologies such as SOLR or Opensearch/ElasticSearch
• 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:

• 6+ 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
• Mentoring and coaching skills
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Strong understanding of SDLC
• Expertise with cloud technologies especially AWS
• Good experience delivering solutions and impact in agile environments
• Expertise in system design
• Good with Observability, Monitoring and Serverless technology
• Experience providing data for consumption via API
• Experience and strong understanding of API First principles

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.

While open-source data is readily available to analysts and decision makers, it can be unmanageable in structure and volume, is not assured, and can be manipulated either intentionally or unintentionally. Janes open-source intelligence is verified and validated through our Tradecraft processes within our Single Intelligence Environment (SIE). Janes uses a multi-faceted approach to open-source intelligence, developed over 120 years, with all sources assessed for bias/objectivity, reliability, and level of certainty.

We excel at capturing and making sense of open-source information to regularly reveal new and timely insights. We provide clients with a definitive source of the ‘what’, the context to understand the ‘why’ and, particularly within our dedicated forecasting products, a prediction of what will happen in the future. Our news provides both a factual journal of record and commentary in order to add the necessary context behind the facts.

Our goal is to ensure our journalism and analysis is better, sharper, more relevant, more comprehensive, and more useful than other open-source providers. We achieve this through employing more than 250 analysts supported by many hundreds more freelance experts to source and verify information. Our experts are supported by technologies such as natural language processing, web scraping and monitoring, data visualisation, and other analytical toolsets.

A key value we provide is topic selection: deciphering what is salient, standing up the facts, and setting events into context.

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.

Our vision is to operate a modern, commercially focused in-house Technology Team that is core to business success through effective partnering with Sales, Product, Research and Data teams to produce best in class OSINT data and product platforms that enable the mission.

We achieve this through our collaborative, supportive team oriented and delivery focused culture, utilising agile methodologies. Our technology group is comprised of cross-functional multi-disciplinary teams located across Croydon and Manchester, led by Phil Smith (Phil Smith | LinkedIn).

Given the complexity of our data and Tradecraft processes we use a broad range of specialist technologies and approaches including AI, ML, graph and document databases, search platforms, serverless technologies and event processing platforms, customer portals, visualisation platforms, Geospatial systems as well as general purpose AWS platform capabilities.

Our world suits those who enjoy working within an empowered, disciplined development environment delivering complex solutions that require genuine problem solving and innovation. We are rightly proud of our culture which is reflected by our very high staff retention rate, which in turn reflects our friendly culture, interesting work, and the importance of our mission.

Benefits:

• 27 days of annual leave
• Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
• Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
• Pension plan (6% employer contribution)
• Private medical insurance – Vitality
• 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)