Senior Software Engineer

About the position

To research, analyse and evaluate requirements for the existing or new software applications.
JOB DESCRIPTION 

• Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life cycle will be encountered).
• Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments and processing, which may include site visits to the site.
• Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations and early science activities.
• Assist and ensure maturing of software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long-term maintainability and robustness.
• Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.
• Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication.
• Participate in development of project schedules and activities.
• Participate in the development of budgets and cost/benefit analysis for compliance with project procurement policies.
• Make technical decisions independently without directions.
• Innovate independently towards improving the software.
• Troubleshoot and solve very difficult software bugs.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Qualification:

• Tech/B.Sc Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• 10 years experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering project environment with a strong software focus.

Experience:

• Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus.
• Python programming language and experience in development, testing, development, commissioning, release and support of large-scale projects in Python.
• Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial).
• Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial.
• Quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control.
• Experienced in computer and environment setup and configuration, including the use of containers, and Kubernetes. Knowledgeable to analyse and implement cybersecurity threats suggested.
• Developing applications targeted for the Linux operating system.
• Implementation of project management and system engineering principles.

Knowledge:

• Modern software collaboration tools such as Github, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA.
• Python programming language.
• Database development, real-time sensor messaging management.
• Knowledgeable or willing to learn to develop and design ML models.

Desired Skills:

• attention to detail
• communication skills
• project management