AUTOMATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Overview

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 or Genoa - 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.

Location

In Naples Hitachi Rail employees roughly 700 people, mostly engineers, who are developing signalling technologies at the state of the art, signaling systems design, the analysis of safety, reliability and availability, laboratory testing, contract management and control, research and development, procurement, and prevention and protection. The Naples offices are located in the area of San Giovanni a Teduccio, industrial area where is easy to reach the airport and train stations.

Location: Hitachi Rail STS Napoli

Mission

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

Responsibilities

• Support the proper requirements management for all the phases of the software lifecycle
• Contribute to the design and the implementation of a complete solution (Modules, documentation and tools)
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Contribute to the correct operation of the SW on the applicable platforms
• Contribute to provide the proper level of support to the other functional units (RAMS, Verification, Test & Commissioning,..)
• Contribute to the application of common methodologies, technical solutions and best practices in coherence with the Development function

Education and Experience

Education required : Master / Bachelor degree in Computer / Electronics / Telecommunications / Automation Engineering

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

Skills and Qualifications

• Creative, flexible and self-motivated
• Available to quickly and continuously learn
• Ability to manage time and quality
• Analyzing information
• General programming skills
• Software design
• Software debugging
• Software documentation
• Software testing
• Problem solving
• Strong team working attitude in international environment
• Software development fundamentals
• Software development process
• Software requirements
• English: upper intermediate level required
• Knowledge: UI and UX design
• Strong background in web application development
• At least one popular front-end framework, preferred Angular
• At least one popular back-end framework, preferred Spring Boot and NodeJs
• Essential front-end technologies like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
• 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 (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle etc.) and NOSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB etc.) databases
• Familiar with micro-service pattern, preferred Docker
• Familiar with Linux

Additional information

Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Equal Opportunity

Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at . At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.