Senior Software Engineer

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Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and develop complex software systems for customers. You'll provide technical leadership on critical projects, ensuring reliability and performance. You'll work cross-functionally to develop and optimize designs. You'll have significant technical responsibilities and contribute to strategic planning. You'll evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, and may serve as a technical advisor. Proposing demos, ensuring code quality, and designing and deploying complex software and hardware modules.

• Your responsibilities:
• Overseeing technical project planning, execution, and delivery of high quality software systems, complying with industry standards.
• Synthesizing multiple inputs and leveraging in-depth knowledge and creativity to solve complex organizational and operational problems.
• Creating and maintaining documentation, driving best practices, ensuring project success and timely delivery.
• Acting as a subject matter expert and advisor. Teaching less experienced team members design, development and problem solving best practices.

• Our expectations:
• Project on-time delivery Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with significant and relevant prior experience.
• Able to complete complex software projects with independence, applying industry regulations and safety standards.
• Experience - Able to design, develop, test, and optimize reliable, scalable software solutions, applying agile development methodologies.
• Experience - Able to write complex code in multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, and C++.
• Knowledge - Excellent leadership, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. Collaborative Team Player - Collaborative: Is intentional about seeking input and including others when making decisions. Humility: self aware, vulnerable, willing to reflect critically on opportunities for self improvement. Interpersonal Influence: listens, masters productive conflict, works across functions and BU boundaries.Trustworthy: Builds trusting relationships by being transparent and acting with integrity.
• Decision Quality - Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought tout by others for advice and solutions.

• Reliability
• Drives and Delivers Impact - Delivers Results: Does what it takes in order to consistently meet expectations. Action-Oriented: Approaches work with a sense of urgency and drive. Prioritize: Identifies the vital few and focuses resources and energy on the most impactful tasks. Executional Rigor: Uses metrics to measure progress and inform decision-making.
• Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
• Dealing with Ambiguity - Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things up before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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