Associate Software Developer I

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

As a junior member of the AspenTech Inmation development team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on Project Beyond and help shape the future of automation. This includes exciting industrial edge connectivity and distributed computing projects, surfacing data from the plant floor all the way into the cloud. The role focusses on highly performant data services used to move and manage massive amounts of data. Working on APIs to configure and diagnose the data flow as well as to access the data to support data visualization and analysis capabilities is another essential part of the role. This will also involve working on different operating systems and leveraging various container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

From technical architecture sessions with our experts, development work using our CI/CD pipeline, to experimenting with cutting edge big data technologies, you’ll help realize the boundless automation vision of Project Beyond. You’ll join a team of very skilled, talented and passionate people, always bringing the industry’s best practices to our workflow. This is a great opportunity to join the booming market of Industrial Automation and the Internet of Things “IoT”. Become a part of an innovating company that is on the leading edge of the industry.

Your Impact

• Contribute to development of backend services using the C/C++ and/or the Lua programming language.
• Perform automated testing within an iterative agile environment.
• Participate in all agile ceremonies (standups, planning, training, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives).

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related software engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Fundamental knowledge of computer programming. Data structures, algorithms, concurrent programming, elements of operating systems design, etc.
• You are an experienced user of at least one modern operating system and can create application software for it. Your ability to create system software would be a distinct plus.
• You had some exposure to concepts such as networks, databases, servers, application protocols and information security.
• You are fluent in the C++ language and follow its evolution closely.
• You are familiar with other programming (scripting) languages.
• Knowledge of modern software development cycles and tooling is a plus. Open minded, able to think within and out of the box.
• You speak English fluently.
• AspenTech Inmation’s competence center is in the metropole area of Cologne, Germany, with secondary office in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• Hybrid work Environment with 4 days of office presence per week.
• Other highlights of the package (HR to fill out, e.g., number of holidays etc.).