Associate Software Engineer

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a global technology powerhouse. With some of the best-known brands in the world, Siemens has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and reliability for more than 175 years.

We're looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join our Brightly Software team in Cairo, Egypt.

Responsibilities:

• Drive design and building of innovative and performant features into our next-generation software applications.
• Apply deep knowledge of computer science & programming principles, combined with empirical professional experience into innovative solutions.
• Develop, integrate & document libraries and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development on our applications across multiple projects as common services or components, leveraged by multiple products, within scope, cost, time & quality constraints.
• Build and track quality into agile product lifecycle encompassing requirements, design, code, testing, delivery, support.
• Enable and write clear maintainable full-stack solutions that scale, adhere/improve/augment existing standards, working in a professional software engineering environment (source control, shortened release cycles, continuous integration, and deployment, etc.).
• Understand and socialize company goals, metrics and align with the team's technical goals.
• Advise product owners and UX on what's feasible technically, a partner in user requirements translation to technical specifications. Participate in product planning sessions as a technical SME.
• Support our products, identify and fix root causes of production incidents, own troubleshooting and resolution of production issues across teams.
• Own discovery, solutioning, monitoring, incident resolution - imbibe and socialize DevOps mindset.
• Own product quality and work to quickly address production defects.
• Embed a DevOps mentality within the team.
• Serve as a technical leader for your team as needed or special purpose projects per business priority. Identify & own coaching opportunities.
• Stay current with learning current trends in technology and mentor and guide junior engineers and interns.
• Partner with architects, engineers, development managers, product managers, agile coaches across the engineering practice in an agile environment, with scrum implemented at scale globally.
• Driver in continuous improvement processes through metrics and feedback.
• Welcome, change and complexity. Learn quickly and adapt fast. Be a change leader!

• Bachelor's in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
• Data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, SQL, web programming, design patterns, SOLID principles.
• 1+ years' experience with C# (.NET Framework / Core) or other object-oriented programming languages, web development, JS frameworks, UI/UX technologies, RESTful services and relational databases writing queries, stored procedures, functions, etc.
• 1+ years' experience unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks.
• DevOps' mindset and experience in a mature CI/CD environment.
• Implementation of exception handling, key event logging, and performance measurement.
• Experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork and influencing skills required.
• Able to work on a flexible schedule to co-ordinate with teams in North America.