Job Responsibilities & Requirements
What You Will Do:
As a Graduate Software Engineer at MiTek UK, you will join the team working on Optics, contributing to a product that helps deliver insight, visibility, and value across MiTek’s software landscape. You will work alongside experienced engineers, product managers, and QA specialists to design, build, test, review, deploy, support, and improve production software. This is a hands-on engineering role for early-career engineers who are ready to apply their academic knowledge, continue learning, and grow into confident professional software engineers with strong foundations in quality, maintainability, and product impact.
This role provides a clear route into a long-term software engineering career at MiTek, with increasing responsibility as your confidence, technical judgement, and delivery capability grow.
First 3 months: onboarding, product familiarisation, environment setup, team practices, and supported engineering tasks.
6 to 12 months: delivery of fuller features or technical improvements, debugging, production-quality fixes, and technical discussions.
Beyond 12 months: progression towards an established Software Engineer role, broader feature ownership, system quality improvements, and future senior engineering responsibilities.
Progression is supported through one-to-ones, code review feedback, mentoring, performance objectives, and practical product work.
Design, develop, test, and maintain production features and supporting engineering capabilities for the product.
Work with engineers, product managers, QA specialists, and stakeholders to understand requirements, shape technical approaches, and deliver practical software solutions.
Support troubleshooting, debugging, refactoring, and continuous improvement activities across production software.
Contribute to automated testing, code reviews, documentation, telemetry, DevOps practices, and knowledge-sharing within the team.
Familiarity with programming languages such as C#, .NET, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or Python.
Understanding of software development principles, source control, testing, and collaborative engineering practices.
Curiosity about software architecture, product development, telemetry, user feedback, and how well-engineered software creates business value.
Exposure to web application development, APIs, telemetry, analytics, or DevOps practices.
Access to professional development, training resources, code review, technical mentoring, and practical production software experience.
MiTek Perks:
Generous time off including Paid Time Off, 13 annual holidays, and volunteer time off
Day One Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision Plans
Family friendly benefits including Paid Caregiver Leave, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Reimbursement
Performance/Incentive bonuses
Career advancement, training opportunities, Employee Resource Groups, and tuition reimbursement
Retirement programs including Matching 401(k) Contributions and Profit Sharing
Employer paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
myFlexPay partner – allows you to track, manage and access your pay anytime
MiTek is a platform innovator and enabler that exists to transform the building industry with better building solutions. In 1955, MiTek transformed residential construction with the invention of the Gang-Nail plate and a digital platform that provided an affordable and scalable way to manufacture wood trusses. Today, MiTek delivers software, services, engineered products, and automated solutions that enable the building industry to improve efficiencies by optimizing the balance between off-site and on-site. With nearly 5,600 team members worldwide, MiTek collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate transformational breakthroughs in design and construction to transform the way the industry designs, makes, and builds. As a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) company since 2001, MiTek has a record of continuous growth and innovation.
MiTek is an E-Verify and Drug and Tobacco-Free Workplace.
We are an equal opportunity employer; and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ethnicity, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or transgender status), age (40 and over), genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
For accommodation to assist with completing this application, please contact Human Resources at +1 314-434-1200.
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