Software Designer (Machine Control - C#)

ABOUT SIOUX
Sioux is a strategic high-tech solutions provider that develops, innovates and assembles complex high-tech systems. We have a team of over 1,200 dedicated engineers who either support our clients or serve as their Research and Development department. Our strong productivity allows us to speed up product development, giving our clients a competitive edge at a better cost-effectiveness.
As a rapidly growing employer, Sioux values its employees' growth and well-being. We invest in their career development and foster a positive work environment that promotes personal and professional growth.

SIOUX IN SINGAPORE
Sioux Singapore plays a pivotal role in the Asian market by offering R&D services from our centers across Europe and Asia to customers, leading development teams in Asia, from Singapore.
This expansion allows us to meet the changing needs of our domestic and international (OEM) customers in the semiconductor, analytical, and medical industries.

The Role

As a Software Designer at Sioux, you are involved in preparing the requirements and you are responsible for creating and sharing software design, the implementation, integration, and quality of the software. You want to advance towards a role in which you provide technical control to the software development team, also making your own contributions to design, realization and integration.

Your role will involve developing equipment control software to support customers in the mentioned domains. Your responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with architects to define product architecture in your domain.
• Analyze customer needs in software requirement engineering.
• Analyzing, designing, implementing, and testing the control software.
• Conducting peer reviews to ensure product quality.
• Leading the small development team and ensuring team performance.
• Working as an integral part of a scrum team and handling user stories across the full stack.
• Developing functionality using Agile practices, emphasizing speed and quality.

The Job Scope
Develop testable quality code in C# for the following machine control functionalities:

• WPF and WinForm UI development.
• Machine Control and Sequencing.
• Hardware abstraction layer.
• Subsystem/device communication and control.
• System calibration and positional error measurement and compensation.
• SECS/GEM functionalities.
• Lead scrum team technically through sprint planning, design review, merge request review, design/code refactoring activities.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• A technical background with a higher professional or university education.
• Ideally, a background in the semiconductor, analytical, or medical domain.
• Experience in developing equipment control applications, including working with PC-based control, embedded controller, or motion controller.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in C# in object-oriented programming, and UML tools.
• Minimum 5 years in object-oriented analysis and design with common design patterns.
• Minimum 5 years in active design refactoring with Clean Code/SOLID principles, and design refactoring with common design patterns.
• Minimum 5 years leading Scrum development teams with requirement engineering, sprint management, and technical design reviews.

DESIRABLE SKILLSET

• Able to handle complex software solutions.
• Experience with C# Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) and programming.
• Experience with C# WPF, MVVM framework.
• Experience with C# NUnit unit test framework.
• Worked with Agile Scrum and Kanban teams.
• Worked with git workflow with online repositories like GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.
• Worked with git tools like SourceTree, TortoiseGit, GitKraken, Fork, etc.
• Worked with Continuous Integration tools.

DESIRABLE SOFT SKILL

• A preference for autonomy and responsibility in organizing your work.
• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively within a geographically distributed team.
• Good leadership skills to lead a small team of 3-8 developers.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

Our employees are our strength, and together we want to achieve the maximum. That is why we invest a lot in our employees, through generous development budgets and personal attention. According to our employees, this is what makes the difference at Sioux. We are proud of that. For us, success is more than just a good salary: it is also about feeling valued, getting responsibilities, and being able to continuously develop oneself.

• No matter how experienced you are, you will continue to develop yourself on a personal level and in terms of content. You have a personal training budget of 5,000 SGD available for this, every year.
• Varied work due to the diversity in technologies, markets, and projects.
• An open culture that focuses on collaboration, learning, and having fun.
• An innovative work environment.

Job Location

Our office is conveniently located next to the Tai Seng MRT station.