Software Development Engineer (DI)

About Us:

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description:

Position Description:

• A Senior Digital Innovation Software Development Engineer is expected to help design, develop, and build the enterprise architecture supporting and accelerating digital products and services at BW. This position will be part of a collaborative, purposeful and passionate team in the manufacturing industry operating with agility and leveraging modern development practices.

• The role is expected to build solutions with careful consideration for high level design, technical debt, extendibility, security, and scalability in a manner that minimizes ongoing resource consumption, support & maintenance costs whilst ensuring the solutions deliver value to end users and enables digital service offerings.

• This includes the development and deployment of secure, scalable, and value driving industrial IoT solutions for BW’s industrial equipment. These solutions will enable actionable data-driven insights into production and aftermarket processes for BW and its customers. BW’s Industrial IoT stack spans a wide range of modern technologies including edge computing infrastructure and applications, cloud-native data processing & persistence services in Azure, and extensible web applications for business intelligence.

Job Specifications:

• Expertise with modern software development engineering best practices, including Agile Scrum.
• Expertise with development and deployment to cloud hyper-scaler environments, particularly Azure.
• Expertise in application containerization and containerization deployment technologies (e.g. Docker, k8s, etc).
• Expertise in IoT, distributed cloud-native systems, and event-driven systems.
• Expertise with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) development and deployment, particularly with Terraform.
• Expertise with Typescript (preferred), JavaScript, and NodeJS with a particular emphasis on server-side or back-end cloud-native application development.
• Expertise with managing and leveraging automated deployment pipelines, CI/CD concepts, and application of testing best-practices.
• Lead by example, foster teamwork and inspire team members to be customer and quality focused.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with diligence and accuracy.
• Show leadership courage, challenge stakeholders as appropriate & demonstrate conflict resolution skills.
• Take a highly ambiguous task and provide clear concise implementation details; ability to effectively organize, prioritize, influence technical audience, and execute work in matrixed, complex environments.
• Strong written and oral communication including presentation skills with ability to articulate technical solutions to a diverse audience.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships both within the team and with external stakeholders. Ability to exhibit a high level of responsibility, initiative, accountability, and work autonomously.
• Effectively plan, organize, prioritize, influence, collaborate, multi-task and execute work in matrixed, complex environment whilst maintaining strong and loyal interpersonal relationships.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience.
• 5+ years’ experience with software development and engineering.
• 4+ years’ experience with hyper-scaler (Azure preferred) development, deployment, and monitoring.
• 2+ years' experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling, preferably Terraform, in production environments.
• Strong generalized understanding of programming data structures, design patterns, and best practices.
• Working experience with Typescript & NodeJS, particularly within the context of Azure Functions, is preferred.
• Experience with Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and CI testing automation, in production environments.
• Experience using Git within a collaborative team environment.
• Experience with and technical understanding of modern application containerization practices.
• Experience integrating open-source technologies in a commercial environment is ideal.
• Experience developing & delivering solutions for manufacturing or industrial sectors is ideal.
• Experience developing modern UIs & dynamic data visualizations with HTML and CSS is ideal.
• Experience working on a production SQL and/or non-relational databases at scale is ideal.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Ensure the success of the development team, while acting as both technical leader and individual contributor.
• Ensure business digital product & feature requirements/priorities are met with timely, secure, robust, reliable, cost-effective, scalable, manageable, and user-friendly deliverables with documentation that enable BW Divisions to unlock and capture new business value.
• Plan, design, code, debug, deploy, and document sustainable software development solutions that support and accelerate BW’s Digital Products and Services initiatives.
• Support production software systems - including bug fixes, troubleshooting, monitoring system health via metrics and alarms, and ensure ongoing performance tuning as scale increases.
• Ensure solutions meet industry best practices in security, privacy, and retention requirements.
• Ensure adherence and continuous improvement of software development & change management best practices that maintain a stable, high quality, scalable, and high performing production environment.
• Bring business needs from concept to production and iterate value-adding continuous improvements to solution capabilities with minimal assistance or supervision.
• Identify and scope large ambiguous problems into executable user stories.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers and project team members.
• Work with Product and Engineer manager(s) to collaborate on product vision and product development.
• Develop a broad ownership of software solutions developed by the software engineering team.
• Contribute to the Agile/Scrum process, including both contributing to and/or leading stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog refinement, planning, or other ceremonies as required.
• Coach & mentor junior software development engineers with best practice software dev & deployment principles.
• Evaluate new technology and build proof-of-concepts that can be productized when capability enhancements may require new tools and/or microservices.

Position Type:

• This is a regular, full-time position with the understanding that a regular workweek will require extended days and hours as needed to meet business needs.
• Occasional domestic and/or global travel may be required for this position up to 15%.

At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process. ​

Company:

BW Corporate US