Placement Software Development Engineer (2025)

About ESO: 

ESO is a fast-paced, growing data, technology and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We’re small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada and Northern Ireland, Denmark and Czech Republic! 

How You’ll Support Our Mission

You will begin your career by collaborating with our talented engineers and designers to build the next generation of ESO’s SaaS products. Our engineers are passionate about the products they create and the front-line emergency service responders that they help. You will have the opportunity to experience life in a growing global company with a fantastic team and culture. We care about your career and you as an individual.

We are committed to helping you achieve the most of your year with us and to reaching your maximum potential. We believe that our placement students play an important part in the success of the team so you will be expected to dive in, learn fast and start to be a productive member of the team quickly.

Reporting to the Development Manager you will be part of a full-stack Engineering team based in Belfast. 

What You’ll Be Doing – the day-to-day: 

• Be treated as one of the team; we will support you and teach you the fundamentals of software engineering.
• Be part of a team that encourages you to grow and share the knowledge you’ve learned.
• Develop software that contributes to the ESO suite of applications, supporting the emergency services.
• Work on a range of cloud technologies. 
• Learn architecture, design patterns and new ways of working.
• Be open to CI/CD, automated testing, code review, pair programming, source control and domain-driven design.
• Work directly with designers and business analysts to create customer-driven products.

Who You Are - some of the essential things required to be successful in the role: 

• You must have completed at least two years of a third-level qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline by June 2025. 
• Coding experience with C#, Java or other comparable OOP language.
• Excellent problem solvers with a drive toward finding solutions.
• Able to display strong communication skills. 
• Collaborative team player, both with your team and cross-functionally.
• Eligibility to work in the UK is required - Please note that successful applicants will be based in the office in Belfast at one day per week.

Application closing date: Monday 4th November at 09:00am with interviews taking place virtually in November. 

Benefits & Perks! You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to;

• Life insurance
• Income protection insurance
• Pension contribution
• Private medical insurance including optical and dental
• Employee Reward Platform
• Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoptive pay leave and pay
• Enhanced short and long term sick pay
• Great holiday entitlement 

Are you ready to Make a Difference? 

ESO is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We invite you to consider opportunities at ESO regardless of your gender; gender identity; gender reassignment; age; religious or similar philosophical belief; race; national origin; political opinion; sexual orientation; disability; marital or civil partnership status or other non-merit factor.

Data Privacy

We disclose your personal information to our private equity sponsor, Vista Equity Partners, and its affiliates, including Vista Consulting Group (collectively, “Vista”), for administration, research, database development, workforce analytics and business operation purposes, in line with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Vista processes and shares your personal information with its affiliates, including other Vista portfolio companies, on the basis of its legitimate interests in managing, administering and improving its business and overseeing the recruitment process and, if applicable, your employment relationship with ESO Solutions UK Ltd. If you have consented to us doing so, we also share your personal information with other Vista portfolio companies for the purpose of being considered for other job opportunities in the pooling system, both inside and outside the EEA. Please find a full list of all Vista portfolio companies at: https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/companies/ and Vista’s privacy policy at https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/privacy/. Where this requires us to transfer your personal information outside of the EEA, please refer to the Privacy Policy for further details on cross-border transfers. In connection with the recruitment process, your personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA to Lever, Hirebridge, LLC and Criteria Corp., which provide applicant tracking and evaluation services. Hirebridge, LLC and Criteria Corp. have agreed to comply with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected whilst outside of the EEA.