Senior C Software Engineer (Remote)

Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enables our customers – the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics.

Founded in 2016, we bring together the most creative minds (approx. 160 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.

This will be your team:

Within our Design & Engineering department this role is part of the Software Group. This SW Group consists of 5 teams (Architectural, Machine Control, Device Control, Data Science, Integration & Support).

Your focus will be the Machine Control where you develop software to give commands to the sub system control to tell our machine what to do.

What will you be doing?

As a senior C# Software Engineer, you’ll work in a constantly evolving environment, due to the technological advances and the strategic direction of the company. You work in a scrum team together with 5-10 developers. With each other you deliver high-quality software for a desktop application that has a graphical user interface with a sound architecture.;

With your team you produce robust and maintainable code, you review code from colleagues, troubleshoot issues in production and create automated unit and integration tests. So you are the experienced software engineer that has added value to the entire software development process. Gathering requirements, designing/implementing new features, and presenting the result to our internal stakeholders has no secrets for you.

Besides this you will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Handle interactions between the user or factory host and the components of the machine, orchestrating the actions the machine will perform, such that they are executed in the correct order;
• Take part in the full development lifecycle from design to maintenance;
• Initiate and promote new ideas for continuous improvement of the product.

Why is the position interesting for you?

• You have the knowledge and experience to technically lead a team by nature, not hierarchically;
• Willing to take new challenges and keep up to date with new technologies/techniques;
• You like to work in a high-tech scale up company with a good atmosphere and lots of freedom for new ideas.

How can you help us?

• You have 3+ years of experience working with C# or similar object-oriented programming language;
• You have experience leading and guiding a team technically without be a manager;
• Strong teamwork skills (Agile/Scrum);
• Able to explain your (design) decisions to teammates with sound reasoning;
• Easily collaborate with non-technical stakeholders on gathering requirements and validating your results;
• It’s a strong preference if you have developed desktop applications with a GUI before, preferably using WPF.

What can you expect from us?

Getting on board now is a great opportunity to grow with the company from a technical, personal, and financial perspective. Nearfield’s momentum is energetic and promising!

Our starting point is of course to pay someone a fair and competitive salary and besides this we offer you:

• we value your work-live balance;
• time for some relaxation: 240 hours of holiday per calendar year (based on 40 hours);
• 8% of your annual salary (gross) holiday allowance;
• Commuting allowance;
• Work from home allowance;
• Discount on your health insurance;
• We are here to support one another, and colleagues are there to help you. TEAM is very important, Together Everyone Achieves More!
• Besides a challenging role where you can utilize the full extent of your professional knowledge.

Recruitment Process

If the above challenges excites you, we encourage you to send us your details using the Apply now button on our career site.

Our recruitment process:

• Phone Screening by Recruiter;
• Tech assignment;
• 1st interview ( Team manager + SE);
• 2nd interview (HRBP + Director of D&E);
• Meeting our CEO;
• Offer
• Onboarding and welcome at Nearfield Instruments!

If you have any questions? Feel free to contact me via:

Niels Jordens – Tech Recruiter

Recruitment, consultancy and/or other agency?

We appreciate the interest, but we source all our candidates directly. We understand that you as an intermediary want to present candidates to our interesting positions. This is not how we have structured our recruitment.

This means that all profiles offered to Nearfield Instruments will be treated as direct applications. Unless we have explicitly agreed otherwise.

Nearfield Instruments brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop a revolutionary high throughput atomic force microscopy (AFM) system, enabling atom-scale resolution 3D metrology at industry-level throughput. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced metrology machines.