Senior Software Designer

NAXCON GmbH, located in the heart of Freiburg, is at the forefront of the German IT and engineering industry.

Our experts have extensive knowledge in software and hardware development, state-of-the-art electronics, and future-oriented technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

We are not only dedicated to project work for our customers, but also intensively pursue in-house innovation projects as well as research & development. Renowned companies from a wide range of German industries place their trust in us - demonstrating the outstanding expertise and commitment of our engineers.

Position: Senior Software Designer

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Field: Semiconductor

Type: Full-time/on-site

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 Designer at the company, 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: Masters 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.

What can you expect from us?

Getting on board now is a great opportunity to grow with the company from a technical, personal, and financial perspective.

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.