Software Engineer Manufacturing Automation

### Responsibilities **1) Data Foundations & Engineering** - Design and evolve a maintainable relational or structured data model suitable for hierarchical manufacturing data. - Build and maintain data ingestion and transformation processes. - Establish reliable technical integrations with manufacturing applications, including understanding source data structures, implementing stable connectors, handling schema changes, and setting up integrity checks. **2) Backend & Business Logic Development** - Develop backend services that implement core business logic for manufacturing business process flows. - Collaborate with solution developers to translate requirements into actionable business logic. - Build and maintain APIs or service endpoints used by downstream applications. - Create reusable software components for consistent data access, validation, and transformation. - Ensure backend components are secure, performant, and scalable with audit trail functionalities. **3) Front-End / Application Development** - Build user-facing applications on a modern manufacturing app platform software. - Integrate applications with backend services, connectors, and data sources. - Develop custom interface logic or extensions as needed. - Collaborate with manufacturing users to refine UI/UX and workflow behavior. **4) Quality, Reliability & Operational Excellence** - Implement data quality checks such as referential integrity, anomaly detection, and completeness validation. - Build resilience mechanisms into pipelines and services (automated retries, fallback strategies, exception logging). - Monitor application and pipeline performance, availability, and data freshness. - Produce QA summaries and reports for approval to Go Live. **5) Documentation & Engineering Practices** - Maintain technical documentation and diagrams for data flows, integrations, system logic, and API specifications. - Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement of engineering standards. - Produce operational guides, runbooks, and troubleshooting procedures. ### Requirements **Qualifications & Experience** - Track record of building and maintaining in-house, multi-user, web-based applications. - Strong programming fundamentals (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or equivalent). - Solid SQL skills and practical experience designing or maintaining relational databases. - Experience developing APIs or backend services (authentication, data access, performance). - Hands-on experience integrating with external systems, databases, or APIs in production. - Working knowledge of enterprise operational data concepts (lineage, quality checks, monitoring). - UI/UX fundamentals for building intuitive, task-oriented interfaces. - Good engineering hygiene: testing, Git, CI/CD, and clean, modular code. - Ability to break down ambiguous requirements into maintainable solutions. **Soft Skills & Working Style** - Independent and collaborative in a cross-functional environment. - Clear, succinct communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Organized, detail-oriented, and committed to documentation. - Hands-on approach to prototyping. - Growth mindset and ability to manage time effectively.