Karrierechancen bei Extron

*This is a hybrid occasional in office position. Employees must live within commutable distance to the office*

Company Overview

Extron is a leading developer and manufacturer of professional AV hardware and software solutions which serve the ever-changing needs of organizations around the world as they strive to better communicate.  Each Extron product is carefully engineered to provide best-in-class performance, intuitive operation and exceptional reliability.  At Extron, the passion for our products is evidenced by our company culture which encourages innovation and provides opportunities for individual career growth. Our teams develop and release over 100 new products a year and continue to grow our vast patent portfolio.

Position Overview

The Software Engineering team at Extron is a diversely rich and global group of technical and industry talents who follow agile principles while developing solutions for our customers goals and problem statements by developing software and services across mobile, desktop and cloud platforms.

Control systems are the backbone of any Extron AV solution ranging from the small scale of classrooms and conference rooms all the way to museums, concert halls, stadiums and defense. We in the control systems team, build desktop, web and mobile applications that help design, configure, program and troubleshoot control systems that are deployed all around the world.

As a control systems developer, you will be part of a highly independent cross functional feature team, which writes cross-platform applications using exciting web technologies like node, angular and electron using TypeScript as a programming language. The team is focused on refreshing and redesigning legacy applications by building a new ecosystem of highly compatible apps and modules. The team employs innovative and modern design philosophies in regular day to day development, such as,

• Microservice based architecture, a framework to provide scalable and shareable functionality
• Developing UI as “Microfront-ends”, this allows sharing of UI modules without code duplication and gives us flexibility to package and build apps in a piece-meal fashion
• Infrastructure as code (IaC), which will give you a taste of the continuous integration and delivery frameworks
• Sophisticated network & web security to protect software and hardware communication channels
• TDD approach to achieve highly automated unit, integration, regression and smoke test suites to minimize manual testing loads

Job Responsibilities:

• Candidate will join a cross-functional feature team, building features in the control system suite of applications
• Actively participate in defining the user facing features in the control system suite of applications by collaborating with product and QA teams
• Design and develop shareable services and modules on the newly redesigned framework to support the features
• Author and maintain documentation to support consumption of and contribution towards the framework by other teams
• Engage with principle engineers, firmware and hardware teams to add software support for new Extron hardware
• Build shareable modules that support other Extron product teams in their feature development and automation efforts
• Author unit and integration tests to maintain testing coverage requirements
• Write page object models to help support E2E automation
• Engage with teams to raise the bar by participating in efforts like training, process improvements, developing internal software tools and utilities, etc.

Required Experience:

• BS/MS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering
• 3+ years' experience developing applications in Typescript, JavaScript, and Python
• Experience in developing shareable modules/services/libraries
• Experience in agile software development process (SCRUM/Kanban)
• Experience in writing Unit/Integration tests using Jasmine, Mocha, or other JS frameworks
• Solid understanding of system design, data structures and design principles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with cross functional teams
• Experience in source control tools like GitHub, bitbucket or similar
• Experience in either of C++, C# or Java is a plus
• Experience in IaC and Continuous integration
• Experience in network programming and network security is a plus
• Experience in developing services for IoT devices is a plus