A career at Arup offers you the chance to make a positive difference in the world. Independently owned and independently minded, we attract a diverse mix of people to work on ground-breaking global projects. We have an ambitious commitment to be the digital leader in the built environment and have digital teams and experts all over the world, who collaborate on world-leading software, data and technology projects and products. Being a global team means we value people with diverse experiences, backgrounds, specialisms, and skills.
The Role
This role provides an opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of activities and technologies in a thriving and highly technical environment. You will be working to develop solutions that will make a real difference to our engineering teams and to the products and services we deliver to our clients and customers. There will be opportunities to demonstrate technical leadership on projects and development initiatives.
This role requires a deep knowledge of good development practices, a range of client/server development targets and experience with cloud providers and services they provide that support software and application development. Although the role draws heavily upon commodity development toolchains, there will be an occasional need to come to terms with specific development tools, frameworks and skill sets to meet project requirements.
You’ll join a growing and collaborative development team with a range of skills and experiences, based mainly in the Asia Pacific region. The role reports to the head of digital design tools development, who is based in Melbourne.
“In my role I get to work with a diverse set of people from across the globe. This broadens my perspective and provides a rich learning experience – there’s always something new to learn. Arup is very much a humane organization and I really value the collaborative spirit in the team and the flexibility I’m given.”
Gaurav, Hyderabad
You should apply if:
You have deep knowledge of modern development practices, with a range of client/server development targets and experience with cloud providers
You enjoy learning new things, sharing your knowledge, and collaborating with colleagues
You are comfortable working in a distributed, multinational, multicultural team on global projects
The responsibilities of this role include:
Developing software in appropriate programming languages including C#, VB.NET, C++ and SQL. Exploring new development techniques and tools that will enhance the performance and/or functionality of the applications
Interrogating, analysing and understanding the data sets associated with each of the systems built by the team
Playing an active part in our agile team: helping to build an inclusive environment, sharing your knowledge, and promoting development best practices with colleagues within in the team and the wider Arup developer community
Maintaining the integrity and quality of the application code base through code reviews, use of coding standards, version control, issue tracking, documentation, and testing (manual and automated)
Responding in a timely manner to elevated (Level 3) user-support requests and incidents and taking ownership of incidents
Keeping up to date with current methods and seek new methods in the industry. Keeping knowledge current through hands-on experimentation with new technologies; technical reading; seminar, meet-ups, workshop conference attendance and interaction with subject matter experts
Requirements and skills
Essential Skills and Knowledge:
3-4 years development experience with demonstrable proficiency in at least one of the following languages: C# (or VB.NET), Java, C++, SQL
Demonstrated experience with any CAD/BIM application development (e.g. AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, MicroStation)
Demonstrated experience with desktop UI development (WPF, WinForm, UI automation)
Experience with DevOps principles and techniques, source code control, CI/CD tools and automation
Experience with Web Application and Server Architectures (e.g. MVC, REST APIs).
Database development experience using SQL (SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres) and/or NoSQL (HBase, Redis, MongoDB) data stores
Experience with unit testing frameworks (NUnit, MS Unit Test, SpecFlow)
Experience of / familiarity with cloud hosting, build and deployment in the cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google, Heroku), PaaS and SaaS
Capable of solving complex technical and software development problems and conveying this information to others
Required Behaviours:
You have a passion for diversity, recognizing the innovation and competitive edge that comes from a diverse highly skilled team where equal opportunities are truly valued
You will be developing your technical leadership skills and strive to improve the team
You will be flexible in your approach to problem solving as you understand that there are multiple technical and commercial drivers for software development
You will be eager to take on new challenges and look for opportunities to improve current solutions on your own
You will be approachable by other Arup staff for problem solving and development requests
You have an appreciation of future directions that the business and technology are moving towards
You will possess a natural curiosity for all things technical. You will take responsibility for keeping yourself up to date
You will have good English written/verbal communication skills with both non-technical as well as technical audiences managing successful communications with governance boards and stakeholders
No agencies please
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