Senior Software Developer

<p style="margin-left:0in">Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in"><strong>Role description:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Working with high-profile clients around the world, you will deliver solutions that solve complex problems with evolving data and advanced algorithms. You will use modern technologies and cloud services AWS and Azure to deliver cutting edge applications involved in 24/7/365 active operations. To this end, you must have high ownership and be committed to solving production issues whenever they arise. Arcadis has an extremely collaborative environment where teams work together across multiple disciplines to achieve the best outcomes possible. Everyone is committed to delivering highly stable and quality driven software products that impact people's lives. </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Things you'll be working on: </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Feature driven development in a remote collaborative team environment. </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Design, develop, unit test, and maintain secure applications and services across a variety of private and public sector clients around the world. </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Interface with external data sources using a large variety of protocols. </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Perform peer-reviews of solution designs, architectures, and related code. </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Leverage cloud services provided by Azure or AWS to host and deliver all services. </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Implement ITS device-level protocols to support integration with the inSIGHT Advanced Transportation Management System (ATMS). </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Develop new microservices to meet new functional needs of the system, handling design and software architecture roles</p> <p style="margin-left:0in"><strong>Role accountabilities:</strong></p> <p>Provide senior-level software development experience, with emphasis on back-end systems design and development: </p> <p>· Implement ITS device-level protocols to allow for new device types or new functionality to be incorporated into the inSIGHT ATMS software; </p> <p>· Create new software microservices as needed to provide new functionality into the core of the system; </p> <p>· Design services to communicate with field devices across various network topologies; </p> <p>· Devise the appropriate software design and architecture for new back-end services providing core functionality to the inSIGHT ATMS system; </p> <p>· Define automated unit tests to ensure quality and correctness of service logic; </p> <p>· Optimize the data storage and retrieval to the inSIGHT ATMS database.</p> <p>· Work with ATMS operations staff as well as client technical staff as needed to investigate protocol-related issues with devices and to assist with integration and acceptance testing of new device or protocol implementations. B. </p> <p>Technical Leadership:<br> · Provide technical expertise as needed to other software developers on the team; </p> <p>· Perform code reviews and provide guidance on pull requests for device services; </p> <p>· Review and advise on effort estimates and feature requests from clients with respect to new or expanded device integration; </p> <p>· Mentor staff to grow the core competency of the team for device service development and protocol implementation capabilities</p> <p style="margin-left:0in"><strong>Qualifications & Experience:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Minimum 15 years software development experience; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Practical experience with low-level protocol implementations for devices and/or IoT; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Experience with protocols for ITS field devices including NTCIP, TMDD, Modbus, and SNMP </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Practical knowledge and experience with C++, C, or other low-level languages; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Strong understanding of the full software development life cycle, including best practices; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Experience delivering and maintaining customer facing production systems; · Experience with SQL database queries, optimization, and design; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Experience with SCADA systems; </p> <p style="margin-left:0in">· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Why Arcadis?</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Together, we can create a lasting legacy.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in">Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $xxx,xxx - $xxx,xxx. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.</p> <p><br>  </p>

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