Principal Software Engineer

About the position

At TA Instruments, we're looking for creative and innovative engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including data processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. We encourage all our engineers to constantly add value to themselves and the business through learning and collaboration. We are looking for smart, self-motivated software engineers to join our truly exceptional engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop and release/maintain application, user interface, data analysis, and 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.
• Collaborate with the agile team and appropriate experts to implement designs.
• Provide code and supporting documentation in accordance with coding guidelines, quality processes and applicable procedures, including team's definition of DONE.
• Generate automated and manual tests to verify implemented software in collaboration with the agile team.
• Provide work estimation and tracking information to support management decisions and planning.
• Maintain a pro-active attitude to ensure continuous improvement of software quality, work process and individual skills.
• Contribute 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, providing input and feedback, and taking ownership on identified improvements.
• Actively participate in learning and sharing activities either during informal or formal training and demos.
• Demonstrate continuous technical improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (preferably in a science related subject or in engineering)
• C# and/or other .Net Programming experience
• 5+ years of experience
• Efficient communication, teamwork, analysis and decision making skills
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and resolve integration problems
• Passion for software and software design
• Experience with WPF/Winforms, MVVM patterns

Nice-to-haves

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