Staff Software Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, KA, in

Company Description

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place. 

Smiths Detection is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.  

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical leadership in design, implement, test, maintain and enhance features for new and released software applications and libraries.
• Set up and be a key contributor to Test Driven Development practice to the team.
• Keep ownership of technical designs, source code, and component test execution to demonstrate alignment to the functional specifications. Be a hands-on developer in designing and implementing C# .NET applications & libraries.
• Develops software code to complex design and architecture which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Translate architectural concepts into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences and applications.
• Creating and maintaining tools to validate, unit tests, integration tests and documentation for these components.
• Performing code reviews and providing suggestions for fixes and improvements.
• Guides the team and develops unit tests as a part of software development.
• Supporting issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution.
• Delivering projects on-time, within functional and quality spec; all the while communicating clearly with stakeholders.
• Work with Principle and Senior architects, managers, and team members to estimate effort and to clarify, negotiate and document scope, design, and code.
• Experience in design principals/pattern and developing software.
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization.
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.

Qualifications

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical/Electronics Engineering and/or Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent.
• Must have good proficiency in C#, WPF, MVVM, LINQ and WCF or Web API
• Should possess at 9-14 years of work experience as a hands-on software developer.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, microservices architecture, data structure, algorithms, systems architecture.
• Proficiency in C# .NET Core
• Understanding and working experience with REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of SQL/No-SQL databases, PostgreSQL.
• Must have worked on Windows software development environments.
• Good experience of Test-Driven Development.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and Pair Programming.
• Knowledge of Coding Standards, version management (Git/Bit bucket or similar), Build Process, Packaging, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Ability to work with multiple teams and projects at any given time.
  
  Preferred Competency Requirements:
• Web development technologies including Angular, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and CSS
• Experience with database development including relational database design, SQL technologies.
• Experience with user interface design and prototyping.

Additional Information

We offer…

Join us and we’ll help build your career, with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business, both locally and globally. You’ll experience an inclusive environment, with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. You’ll also have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing, financial and lifestyle perspective.

Join us and work for a world-leader, with the benefits and training to reward your dedication and skills. Be part of a team where we are making the world a safer place.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)