(Senior) Software Engineer

About Nearfield Instruments

Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enables our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics.

Founded in 2016, we bring together the most creative minds (approx. 320 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.

Where you will be working?

Within our Design & Engineering department this role is part of the Software Group. This SW Group consists of 5 teams (Architectural, Machine Control, Device Control, Data Science, Integration & Support). Your focus will be the Machine Control where you develop software to give commands to the sub system control to tell our machine what to do.

What will you be doing

As a Senior Software Engineer at Nearfield Instruments, you develop and maintain specialized knowledge related to a semiconductor desktop application, serving as a technical go-to person for both Product Owners and Developers. 

• You are developing and maintaining specialist knowledge on a defined topic;

• You understand Agile/Scrum well. You facilitate PO and release manager, help them to plan the work for the release;

• You collect requirements from Product owners and translate product requirements to SW level requirements;

• You are able to make a high level architect design and/or high level module/component design to fulfill the both SW level requirements and product requirements;

• You are able to troubleshoot technical issues that involve software development, engineering tasks and product releases.

Why is the position interesting for you?

• You have the knowledge and experience to technically lead a team by nature, not hierarchically;

• Willing to take new challenges and keep up to date with new technologies/techniques;

• You like to work in a high-tech scale up company with a good atmosphere and lots of freedom for new ideas.

What are we looking for? Scaleup can provide phenomenal learning and development opportunities but can also be a hectic environment at times. You should understand Agile quite well. You embrace the culture and keep working on following aspects such as customer collaboration, Individuals and interaction, responding to change over following a structured plan, prototyping/working solutions over comprehensive documentation.

Furthermore, you need to recognize yourself in the profile as described below.

• Education: Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant education background;

• Above 10 years of experience in software development in C#;

• Above 5 years of experience in software system design, and architecture;

• Sufficient knowledge with using tools such as Git, JIRA and PlantUML;

• Good communication skills;

• Able to split the work into several development phases and clearly communicate with developers;

• Coaching ability, as a technical advisor, you make sure that the team stays up-to-date with relevant knowledge;

• Assuring the technical quality of designs.