Software Engineer

Job Description

Starting from £46,575k, salary depending on skills and experience

Permanent

Full time with flexibility for part-time

Hybrid working & Lincoln or Huntingdon Office

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will either be in our Lincoln or Huntingdon office and the expectation would be to work from the office 2-3 days a week.

Join the Digital Transformation at Anglian Water!

We’re on an exciting journey in Digital Engineering, redefining our role from a traditional support function to a trusted, strategic partner. Our Digital engineering practice works side by side with subject matter experts across the business to co-create user-centred, data-driven products & platforms that boost performance and productivity. Using modern technology and agile thinking, we design, build, and evolve digital solutions that stay ahead of business needs and tech trends.

We don’t just deliver, we continuously improve, ensuring our digital products and platforms remain powerful, purposeful, and perfectly aligned with the future.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a vital member of one of our agile Digital Squads, small, cross-functional teams aligned to specific areas of the business. Together, you’ll be focused on maximising the value of digital products, driving innovation, and delivering high-impact solutions.

Our squads follow Agile Scrum and DevOps principles and work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI Designers, User Researchers, and other engineers. Collaboration is key, and you'll also partner with key teams like Architecture, Security, and Service Operations to ensure what we build is secure, reliable, and aligned with organisational standards. Our goal? To create digital products that are user-led, high-performing, and future-proof empowering our business day in, day out.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a hands-on, agile Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving cloud-based software products. This includes everything from design and estimation to coding, cloud infrastructure management, and supporting live products and platforms in production.

While you’ll typically work within your squad, there will be opportunities to lead on specific products or technical components as the subject matter expert and spend time enhancing your personal skills and knowledge.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Manage your own workload using Kanban boards, staying focused and self-motivated

• Collaborate closely with your team to align on goals and priorities

• Contribute to agile retrospectives and help improve how we work, from tools to processes

• Advise and support Product Owners, translating requirements into innovative, scalable solutions

• Own the detailed system design, ensuring best practices and engineering standards are met

Key Accountabilities:

Systems Analysis, Design & Estimation

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architecture, Security, and Analysts to break down user needs into deliverable software features.

• Create high-level designs, estimate work, and define non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, security, monitoring).

• Act as a technical consultant, contributing to testing strategies and upholding DevOps best practices.

Software Development & Support

• Design, build, configure and maintain software products and cloud infrastructure using modern development practices.

• Implement deployment strategies (CI/CD), write user documentation, and support disaster recovery planning.

• Lead on testing (TDD, BDD, automation), participate in peer reviews, and provide third-line support when needed.

Agile Ways of Working

• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and show & tells.

• Help refine the product backlog, reduce technical debt, and continuously explore new tools and techniques.

• Promote a transparent, user-focused culture aligned with Scrum values and Anglian Water’s mission.

What does it take to be a Software Engineer?

We’re after a proactive, solutions-driven Software Engineer who thrives in a collaborative, agile environment. You’ll bring a passion for continuous improvement, strong problem-solving skills, and a user-focused mindset.

Key skills and attributes include:

• A champion of Agile ways of working and continuous improvement

• Confident communicator who can translate technical ideas for a wide audience

• Strong collaboration, influencing, and stakeholder management skills

• Curious, self-motivated, and resilient under pressure

• Balances technical quality with delivery and customer needs

• Organised, team-focused, and supportive with a coaching mindset

What you’ll bring:

• A degree or equivalent experience in software engineering or a related field

• A solid track record of building scalable, reliable software solutions

• Experience across various technologies including backend, frontend, native apps, low-code, and cloud infrastructure

• Proven engineering techniques and a problem-solving approach to delivery

• Cloud centric development experience, with a preference over Microsoft Azure

• Demonstratable experience crafting modern web applications, using JavaScript frameworks such as Angular

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess

• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

• A flexible working culture

• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%

• Life Assurance at eight times your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

• Bonus Scheme

• Lots of great discounts

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell

• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. Just take a look at our Love Every Drop strategy that underpins everything that we do and you’ll start to get a feel for our culture. It’s collaborative, innovative and inspiring. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you want to help us embrace new technology and the power of people to keep us at the forefront of our industry, please apply today!

Closing date: 11th March 2026

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