Senior Software Designer
At Nearfield Instruments we're looking for a Senior Software Designer to join our team.
Full-time · Rotterdam
Senior Software Designer
At Nearfield Instruments we're looking for a Senior Software Designer to join our team.
Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enable 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. 220 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.
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.
As a Senior Software Designer 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.
lead, not follow // open and honest // empowerment and trust // passion and determination // fun and open-minded // “to boldly go…”
Getting on board now is a great opportunity to grow with the company from a technical, personal, and financial perspective. Nearfield's momentum is energetic and promising!
Our starting point is of course to pay someone a fair and competitive salary and besides this we offer you:
Work on high tech semiconductors industry;
time for some relaxation: 240 hours of holiday per calendar year (on 40 hours);
8% of your annual salary (gross) holiday allowance;
Commuting allowance;
Discount on your health insurance;
We are here to support one another, and colleagues are there to help you. TEAM is very important, Together Everyone Achieves More!
Besides a challenging role where you can utilize the full extent of your professional knowledge.
Screening by Recruiter
1st interview
2nd interview
Meeting our CEO
Offer
Onboarding and welcome at Nearfield Instruments!
If you have any questions? Feel free to contact me via:
Faezeh Davari – Corporate Recruiter
Do you want to join our team as our new Software Technical Designer? Then we'd love to hear about you!