Principal Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop and release/maintain application, user interface, data analysis, instrument control software for thermal analysis, rheological, and calorimetric instruments.
• Evaluate system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications.
• Responsible for ongoing support of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs and designing solutions to problematic programming.
• Work within a formal development process covering the full development lifecycle.
• Use code design abilities (including working to SOLID principles and some knowledge of engineering for performance) to generate and document appropriate designs.
• Work in collaboration with the agile team and appropriate experts to implement your designs.
• Provide code and supporting documentation in accordance with the coding guidelines, quality processes and applicable procedures, including team’s definition of DONE.
• Work in collaboration with the agile team to generate automated and manual tests to verify implemented software.
• Provide work estimation and tracking information to support management decisions and planning.
• Keep a pro-active attitude to ensure continuous improvement of the software quality, work process and individual skills.
• Provide contributions to the application architecture with a focus on scalability, maintainability, security and performance.
• Provide product specific and technical support to internal and external users where appropriate.
• Participate in all team meetings and ceremonies in direct collaboration with other sites, provide input and feedback, take ownership on identified improvements.
• Actively participate in learning and sharing activities either during informal or formal training and demos.
• Demonstrate continuous technical improvement.

Requirements

• You have a Bachelors Degree (preferably in a science related subject or in engineering).
• You have C# and/or other .Net Programming experience and expert experience in applying technical standards.
• 5+ Years experience.
• You are using efficiently your communication, teamwork, analysis and decision making skills and you are familiar with Agile methodologies.
• You will be working closely with management team in evaluating current systems and making design decisions on future development.
• As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, you will learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating technologies with our systems.
• You care about software; you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions and experiences.
• You have an eye for software design and can talk eloquently on a range of topics due to your experiences and also from reading and experimentation.
• Experience with WPF/Winforms, MVVM patterns.

Nice to Have

• Analytical or Medical device experience.
• TCP/IP Socket Communications.
• RS232-Serial communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a science related subject or engineering.