Principal Back End Developer

TA Instruments is a world leading Scientific Instrumentation company with a focus on Material Characterization. 

Our instruments are pivotal in: Electric Cars, 3D Printing, batteries, recyclable plastics, space suits, candy that melts in your mouth and not your hands, paint that goes on smooth and dries without streaks, even ensuring your French fries have the perfect crunch to them!  Material Science uniquely spans the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing. 

Our instruments and software come together to aide in accelerating the design of new materials as well as the quality of manufacturing those materials.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Backend Developer (ASP.NET) to join our Research and Development organization and contribute to the continued success of our Thermal Analysis and Rheology products.

This is a hybrid position

As a Lead Backend Developer (ASP.NET) you will:

• Work within a formal development process covering the full development lifecycle.
• Provide code and supporting documentation in accordance with the coding guidelines, quality processes and applicable procedures, including team's definition of done.
• Keep a pro-active attitude to ensure continuous improvement of the software quality, work process and individual skills.
• Provide contributions to the application architecture with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Provide product specific and technical support to internal and external users where appropriate.
• You will be working closely with development team in evaluating current systems and making design decisions on future development.
• As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, continuous learning and active involvement in integrating them with our systems.

 As a Team Member you will:

• Participate in all team meetings and direct collaboration with other product teams, provide input and feedback, take ownership on identified improvements.
• Actively participate in learning and sharing activities either during informal or formal training and demos.
• Demonstrate continuous technical improvement.
• Collaborative and project-driven mindset
• Coach and mentor other developers with a diverse range of experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

Required:

• At least 8+ years in software development experience.
• Expertise in C#, .NET, ASP.NET, Web API
• Expertise with building RESTful APIs
• Experience with middleware
• Strong technical experience in client server programing
• Good knowledge of software engineering principles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Good knowledge of multi-threading & tasks

Desired:

• Analytical Instrumentation Domain
• Building from the ground up in small teams

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.