Software Engineer

• Responsible for writing the software that controls and monitor the telescope. Evaluate requirements for the existing or new software applications, furthermore they develop, test and maintain software solutions to meet the requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in 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.
• Compile document sets.
• 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.
• Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life cycle may be encountered).
• Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments and processing, which may include site visits.
• Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations and science activities.

Key Requirements:

• Tech/ B.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 5+ years, or B.Eng. / B.Sc. Hons (Comp Sci) with 4+ years, M. Eng. / M.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 2+ years.
• Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong -software focus.
• Python or C/C++ programming language and experience in development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support of large-scale projects in Python or C/C++.
• 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.)
• Experience in programming in the Python programming language.
• Experience in prototyping and development, including, testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support of large-scale projects.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Experience in the implementation of project management and system engineering principles.
• Knowledge of Modern software collaboration tools such as GitHub, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA and Python programming language.

Competencies/skills:

• Understanding and experience in implementation of project management and system engineering principles.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies, and frameworks; and supporting
• systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Ability to work independently and as a team.
• Troubleshoot issues methodically.
• Ability and willingness to self-train and up-skill independently.
• Communicate effectively (written and verbal).
• Willingness to play a leading role in mentoring juniors.
• Ability both to work independently and be a good team player.
• Ability to participate and thrive in a collaborative environment.
• Self-motivated and an ability and willingness to self-train and up-skill independently.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.