Associate / Technical Lead, Software Development

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Role:

Act as Software Architect to engage in creating/driving technology roadmap for SFS division's products and advancing developer productivity through tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Be the technology evangelist for Surfscan product division
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Bare wafer inspection (IC & Wafer customers)
• Creates concepts/prototypes for software and helps turning them into plans for execution
• Vivid reader of technology and process trends in industry to define the tools, coding standards and platforms to be used by software team
• Interact with various software teams within and outside division to understand their barriers and come up with suitable remedial (incremental and disruptive) for productivity improvements and software modernization
• Interact with various stake holders, project managers, and developers to envision, model, and design the solutions for a problem at hand.
• Monitor the code check-ins across team regularly and review to ensure the design quality, code clarity, and adherence of coding standards.
• Mentor and collaborate with the development team and enhance their knowledge continuously.
• Develop software requirement specification and detailed design specification documents covering every aspect unambiguously – such as functionality, performance, viability, scalability, comprehensibility, security, and technological constraints.

Skills:

Hard/Technical:

• Extensive technical and product knowledge
• Strong coding skills in multiple programming languages
• Whole rounded assessment of competing alternatives to solve problems at hand
• Ability to navigate from problem to requirements to solution - They are very aware of the tradeoffs in design and implications to SW roadmap

Soft:

• Exhibit consistency over all competencies in delivering great software repeatedly
• Critical thinking, creative thinking, and strong problem solving
• Clear communication, articulation, enable team to rally to achieve high value results

Minimum Qualifications

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

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