Type of Position: Full Time – Permanent
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Who We Are
OCTOPUZ provides offline robot programming and simulation software for businesses of all sizes, from small shops to global corporations. OCTOPUZ is a complete software solution that enables users to program and simulate industrial robots at their computer then directly generate robot specific code to run jobs in production. Our software solution supports a wide variety of robot applications including welding, trimming, painting, 3-D printing, and more. OCTOPUZ offers a powerful, flexible, and customizable environment where users can program multiple robots simultaneously without interrupting production.
Our objective is to enable companies to reach a higher level of efficiency with their robotic systems allowing them to close more business opportunities and possibly enter new markets. To learn more, visit our website at www.octopuz.com.
About the Role
As a senior developer, team lead you will play a key role in defining the design and supporting the development of the OCTOPUZ solution as well as ensure success and growth of the development team.
Leveraging your development experience, you will analyse product requirements and scope/recommend development direction. Your recommendations and decisions may require significant research, prototyping, analysis and/or interpretation. Often you will need to leverage your experience working on architectural and user interface aspects of Windows client development projects.
In your team lead role, you will provide options on how to break up work into releases based on available team resources. Since you take pride in well-designed, efficiently programmed and reliable code, team members look to you when they want advice on coding best practices or are facing challenges to deliver on their tasks.
Role Specifics
As our new Senior Developer you will:
- Lead the translation of requirements and use cases into software prototypes/designs, development definitions and effort estimates
- Provide technical direction for major software initiatives and/or conduct prototyping for new concepts
- Lead and contribute to new solution architecture and graphical user interface design
- Prepare detailed component design and development plan before presenting them in the design review meeting
- Research and assess the technology environment and trends for best practises that apply to the OCTOPUZ solution and robotics industry
- As an individual contributor continue to build efficient, reusable and reliable OCTOPUZ code for stories within the team’s sprint
The Team Lead aspect of your role means you will:
- Provide operational management for the team including distributing tasks, tracking progress, assisting with technical risk assessments, supporting problem solving, ensuring early risk identification and reporting progress
- Provide technical leadership end-to-end for your team in the areas of design, development, validation and test automation, deployment, and support in production
- Drive and take responsibility for the quality of the development and delivery for your team
- Support code peer reviews ode to ensure that it aligns to our code quality standard
- Coach and mentor team members
- Lead discussions within the team to identify, scope and prioritize process improvements, technical debt, tool enhancements, etc.
Mandatory Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience with strong knowledge C# and Python as well as object-oriented design and implementation
- 1+ year of team leadership experience
- Strong verbal communication skills, people management aptitude and development skills
Nice to Have
- Experience bringing robots to life! 6-axis industrial robot interfacing, or direct experience with brands such as Kuka, Fanuc, Yaskawa Motoman, ABB, or similar is highly desirable
No calls or agencies please.
OCTOPUZ Inc. is committed to ensuring a culture of inclusion and diversity and will consider all applicants
regardless of age, marital status, race, colour, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, or disability. For those
requiring accommodations during any stage of the application process, please call 1-226-894-1253 to speak with
Human Resources.
