Principal Software Engineer

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

The Principal Software Engineer is the most senior hands-on technical role on our software team, combining deep full-stack engineering expertise with cloud architecture leadership. This role sets the technical direction for our cloud-based sensor management and data analytics software product called PRISM and related intelligent water platforms. You will design and build across the full stack in C#, .NET, and Angular, shape how our platforms scale in Azure, and raise the engineering bar for the entire team. To succeed in this role, you will have a passion for Agile software development with multi-terabyte datasets, foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, and ship high-quality software that delivers value for our customers.

We’re a globally distributed team that embraces the culture of remote working. We move fast by building our products in the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem using agile software development techniques, automated testing, continuous integration, and microservices.

We’re a team that’s very passionate about the products we create because of the long-term positive effects we’re able to have on millions of people around the globe. We make the world a better place through our software and IoT hardware products that provide information on municipal water collection systems. As the leader in our industry and with over 50 years of experience, our business is experiencing unbelievable growth yet has a stable business model allowing us to invest in long-term software projects.

Primary Duties:

• Serve as the senior technical leader for PRISM and related cloud platforms, setting technical direction, engineering standards, and the long-term architecture roadmap in partnership with software leadership.
• Using strong computer science fundamentals, design and write highly-performant, scalable, and secure software APIs and services with C#, ASP.NET Core, Cosmos DB, and other Azure technologies.
• Lead front-end architecture in Angular and TypeScript, driving UI performance, consistency, and user experience improvements across our applications.
• Design and evolve our cloud architecture, including microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Implement and manage cloud security measures to protect against unauthorized access and data breaches.
• Develop a strong DevOps practice within our software team, helping us to achieve good, automated unit test coverage, CI/CD, automated infrastructure, and teach us how to be more efficient and toil less.
• Lead design and code reviews and establish best practices that raise the quality bar across the team.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and lead cross-training initiatives with UI and API best practices in mind.
• Work with a team that includes front-end developers, back-end developers, data scientists, business analysts, QA, and hardware/firmware teams to turn business requirements into sound technical designs.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, including AI-enabled features and AI-assisted development tools, where they deliver real business value.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation and guidelines for how ADS can best use cloud computing.
• Participate in all aspects of software development: from estimating to scheduling, to implementation and release, and resolution of complex production issues.
• Provide input on improving the software organization to increase throughput, improve quality, and continuously improve processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or a related degree, or equivalent professional experience
• 10+ years production coding experience with .NET, C#, Angular, and TypeScript in an agile environment
• Proven experience as a technical lead or architect on large-scale, cloud-based SaaS applications
• Solid database skills with Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Server, or other non-relational technologies (Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.)
• A strong understanding of microservice architectures and how they can be built in a containerized, Kubernetes-managed environment • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting applications in Microsoft Azure
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automated testing using Azure DevOps and Git
• Ability to design and implement cloud infrastructure, platforms, and applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with high-scale SaaS software systems built for the cloud.
• Experience with IoT, telemetry, or time-series data at multi-terabyte scale • Azure-based cloud architecture and migration experience; Azure certifications a plus
• Experience integrating AI/ML or LLM services into production applications
• Familiarity with security and compliance practices for cloud and industrial systems
• Experience with MS Azure, Amazon AWS or Google Cloud
• Experience in the water, wastewater, or utilities industry

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.