Lead Software Engineer

Trimble is an exciting, entrepreneurial company, with a history of exceptional growth coupled with a disciplined and strategic focus on being the best. While GPS is at our core, we have grown beyond this technology to embrace other sophisticated positioning technologies and, in doing so; we are changing the way the world works. Our solutions are used in over 140 countries and we have incredibly diverse lines of business.

Our employees represent this diversity and can be found in over 30 countries, working closely with their colleagues around the world. Due to our geographic, product and customer reach, there is plenty of room at Trimble for exceptional people to grow. Come position yourself with an innovative industry leader and position yourself for success.

Summary

Trimble is immediately seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Water division engineering team.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be working with a strong team of motivated engineers with focus on building and delivering next generation web applications.

You will interact with product owners and UX designers and convert their ideas into software

solutions.

You will mentor other talented engineers and encourage innovation in the team.

You will also guide the team on web development best practices and set examples by using them in the solutions you build. This position requires in-depth knowledge of design and development of REST APIs using Java, Node, Python, SQL.

You should have experience with agile methodologies, working experience building scalable and

robust user interfaces. Strong experience with Java and/or cloud development technologies are a must for this position.

You will be expected to take initiative to bring new ideas to improve the application platform and to keep your skills up to date as new technologies evolve.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs software engineering within the process framework established for the project. This framework will describe how requirements are developed and analyzed, how changes are made to requirements, how engineering work will be planned and tracked, how testing will be performed, and the criteria by which the performance of the project will be measured. Contributes to the continuous improvement of these processes.

• Works with the project team, with the application domain experts (e.g., application engineers, technical marketing) and possibly with the customers, to establish achievable requirements.

• Works with the project team to identify/clarify project goals, establish useful milestones, and develop a breakdown of the engineering tasks to be performed. During the development process, develops engineering effort/schedule estimates to support overall project scheduling, project tracking, and change control decisions

• Creates software designs, and implements and tests those designs to meet established requirements

• Participates in technical/design reviews as required by the project framework

• Maintains and archives design documents, source code, and other work products necessary for the project

• As necessary, works independently or with quality assurance personnel to plan and execute product testing

• As necessary, performs or enables the ongoing support of software through the creation of design documentation or the performance of defect isolation and resolution

• Works with the author of product documentation to assist in the development and review of product documentation

• As necessary, provides engineering work products and documentation to manufacturing and document control as necessary for successful product release
  

Required Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of professional experience in backend, web application development using Java & SQL

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Preferably in Computer Science)

• Deep Development experience on SQL Technologies, handling SQL related programming,

• Experience with Responsive web design / CSS frameworks like Bootstrap etc.

• Ability to clearly communicate design ideas, present diagrams/slides to peers and engineering leadership

• Must have done at least 1 or 2 large enterprise-level implementations or 2 to 3 medium-sized projects

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Deep knowledge of OOPS, Design Principles

• Strong experience working with Restful APIs

• Thorough knowledge of source control management and CI platforms using Git and Bitbucket or similar

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Working experience in Microservice architecture and "serverless" technologies

• Knowledge in AWS services (DynamoDB/Lambda/EC2/API Gateway/RDS)

• Experience with Continuous Integrations/Continuous Deployment and tools & Infrastructure such as Bamboo, Jira, etc.

• Experience with Linux, scripting etc.

• PostgreSQL and PostGIS

• Experience with GIS and positioning technologies

Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning,modelling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics.