Principal Software Developer

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The RoleAspenTech is looking for a Senior Principal Developer to join the Platform Application Management team. In this position, you will be a member of an Agile development team responsible for design and implementation of platform native installation utilities critical to the successful deployment of AspenTech software to our customers. This role’s contributions have highly visible impacts on the success and scalability of our software offerings to our customers.
As part of the Platform Foundations team, you join an R&D organization whose work makes a direct impact on all energy consumers, is actively working to address the challenges of climate change, and who’s positioned in the market to grow at a rapid pace over the next decade with massive opportunities for career growth.
To be successful in this role, you should have a proven track record of designing and developing challenging, cross-functional software projects with impacts to larger strategic business goals. We need independent and motivated problem solvers with the vision and creativity necessary to drive this chapter in our product development.

Your Impact

• Provide technical leadership to an international team of talented professionals to develop and implement requirements supporting the Application Management team.
• Gain exposure to critical industries such as power generation and chemical engineering.
• Be on the leading edge of a product transformation.
• Communicate system and software specifications to the wider Application Management team.
• Develop and support an ecosystem platform and full-stack web applications to deliver complex system software to AspenTech customers.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to software developers and junior architects as they design and implement best -in-class software to achieve business unit objectives.
• Design and implement reliable, performant, and fault tolerant code to meet strategic business objectives and requirements.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of related experience OR an advanced degree with less experience.
• Strong software architecture knowledge.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• Database: MongoDB, Postgres, MSSQL
• Programming Languages: Java, C++, C#, Python
• Web Frameworks: Angular
• JavaScript Frameworks: Devextreme
• Source Version Control: Git
• Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab pipelines
• Windows and Linux platforms
• Cloud (Azure, AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Observability and Monitoring
• Experience developing and delivering full-stack applications to customers.
• Interest and experience developing for platform-based applications.
• Experience with agile development principles and continuous integration.
• Excellent project management skills; self-directed and capable of working effectively in a deadline environment.
• Willingness to contribute ideas, solutions while honoring and supporting the ideas of others.
• Ability to lead and direct other technical contributors to achieve project and product goals.
• Superior object-oriented design and debugging skills.
• Passion in finding creative solutions to problems, and pride in well-crafted code.