AUTOMATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Hitachi Rail is looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated AUTOMATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER who thrives in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate is comfortable performing a wide range of tasks from administrative to strategic. The position is based in Naples - Italy.

Who We Are

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signaling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 13,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.

In Naples, Hitachi Rail employs roughly 700 people, mostly engineers, who are developing state-of-the-art signaling technologies, systems design, safety analysis, reliability and availability, laboratory testing, contract management and control, research and development, procurement, and prevention and protection.

Thanks to our innovations and expertise, we rank among the best railway technology providers in the industry, delivering our products to Ferrovie Italiane, RFI as well as to the rest of the world.

Mission:

Contribute to the delivery of software fulfilling input requirements (Functional, Performance, Quality), based on the best efficient modular design managing the best compromise between Budget, Schedule, Risks, Reuse, and standardization for future.

Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Accountabilities will include but are not limited to:

1. Support the proper requirements management for all phases of the software lifecycle.
2. Contribute to the design and implementation of a complete solution (Modules, documentation, and tools).
3. Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
4. Contribute to the correct operation of the software on the applicable platforms.
5. Provide the proper level of support to other functional units (RAMS, Verification, Test & Commissioning, etc.).
6. Apply common methodologies, technical solutions, and best practices in coherence with the Development function.

Education required:

Master/Bachelor degree in Computer/Electronics/Telecommunications/Automation Engineering.

Experience:

At least 3 years in the development of web applications for both front-end (client side) and back-end (server side).

Qualifications/Skills:

• Creative, flexible, and self-motivated.
• Available to quickly and continuously learn.
• Ability to manage time and quality.
• Analyzing information.
• Software testing.
• Problem-solving.
• Strong team working attitude in an international environment.
• Software requirements.

Language:

Knowledge:

• UI and UX design.
• At least one popular front-end framework, preferred Angular.
• At least one popular back-end framework, preferred Spring Boot and NodeJs.
• At least one server-side programming language like Java, Python, C#/.Net, etc.
• Advanced techniques for unit and integration testing, continuous integration.
• Experience with SQL (at least one DBMS like MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, etc.) and NoSQL (at least one implementation like Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) databases.
• Familiar with micro-service pattern, preferred Docker.