Senior Software Engineer

Overview:

At ST Engineering iDirect, we're reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology's biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn't the limit—it's just the beginning

We are in search for a Senior Software Engineer at ST Engineering iDirect who will work within the engineering department in a SCRUM team using an Agile framework. The candidate will be responsible for participating in the specification, design, development, testing, and support features for a satellite communications system from concept through completion. He/she will be a highly motivated self-starter with strong written and oral communication skills and work well in a team environment. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with the smartest team, and the very latest technology, then this is the job for you

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements and RFCs and come up with efficient software designs
• Participate in determining the future direction of the satellite system and related products in the areas of software architecture, infrastructure performance, test and reliability
• In an Agile framework, document, design, develop, test, and integrate software functionality for various components within a satellite system and related environments
• Take a collaborative design and validation approach in working with a multi-functional Scrum team of software, firmware, embedded, application, and test engineers
• Troubleshoot and provide resolutions for technical issues encountered in the deployment of software solutions.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of industry experience in programming and software engineering
• Hands-on experience developing, designing, and testing multi-threaded and multi-process applications on Linux, with strong working knowledge of C++
• Detailed knowledge of object-oriented design and programming
• Proven experience with solving real-time embedded issues, including threading, optimization, memory management, interrupt handling, etc. in multi-core/multi-CPU environments
• Knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP), Sockets programming
• Understanding of 3GPP standards, 5G architecture desired
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure) desired

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Must be a self-motivated individual with technical leadership potential and proven success in a structured development environment.
• Possess the ability to proactively drive technical solutions in a collaborative environment.
• Good software design skills using proven and best practice design methodologies & related principles; Strong command of Object-Oriented Design and Object-Oriented Programming techniques.
• Demonstrated experience in developing quality and maintainable software.
• Strong documentation and writing skills.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring of junior members of the team.

• Excellent presentation skills required
• Software design skills with analytical problem-solving abilities
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced development environment
• Working knowledge of UML is strongly desirable
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience/ knowledge in satellite/ terrestrial communications systems is desired
• Working experience with tools such as GDB and Valgrind
• Experience with version control systems (such as git) is strongly desired
• Experience with Jira and Jenkins desired
• Experience developing unit tests, integration tests, and functional testing, including the development of related test automation integrated in a CI/CD pipeline desired
• Scripting using shell scripting or Python desired