Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek, so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. More about Agilent on www.agilent.com

We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Agilent ACG R&D organization.
The ideal candidate will design, develop, and optimize software solutions supporting the business goals of the ACG service organization and will have a strong background in real-time systems, Scala development, and AWS infrastructure.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement real-time software systems for IoT pipelines ensuring low latency and high reliability.
• Develop scalable applications using Scala and functional programming principles.
• Architect AWS-based infrastructure, including EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, Lambda, and other cloud services.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and analytics frameworks for large-scale data processing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate software solutions into complex systems.
• Optimize performance and troubleshoot issues in distributed environments.
• Ensure best practices in CI/CD, testing, and deployment for cloud-native applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent) with directly relevant experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Scala and functional programming paradigms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Solid understanding of data analytics, event pipelines, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with relational, unstructured and time-series database technologies.
  

On a personal level, you are creative, customer focused and tend to challenge the status-quo. You are flexible and adaptable, show a real can-do demeanor and are motivated to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, international team environment. You enjoy working both autonomously and as part of a team.

We Offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package (yearly company bonus, pension scheme, home office furniture, medical & life insurance…)

• Exciting and inspiring projects in a dynamic collaborative team

• A working environment with a multitude of possibilities for professional training and career development in an international company

• Work-Life-Balance is encouraged

• Training on the job in a motivated, dynamic team

• Permanent contract in a fast-growing global company

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