Senior Software Engineer

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Flow Science is a software company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, which develops and distributes the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation software suite, FLOW-3D.  Founded in 1980 by one of the principals who pioneered the “Volume-of-Fluid” (or VOF) method while working at Los Alamos National Labs, Dr. C.W. (Tony) Hirt, FLOW-3D provides users the ability to model and visualize complex fluid flow problems, servicing users from commercial, academic and government domains all over the globe.  FLOW-3D is used in a variety of application areas; everything from water/environmental, to metal casting, aerospace, and additive manufacturing industries.  In the last few years, Flow Science has expanded its product line, creating application specific variants of FLOW-3D, aimed at providing each application area a more streamlined, tailored workflow for simulating problems specific to their industry.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced, knowledgeable, and versatile Senior Software Engineer to utilize their object-oriented programming skills, knowledge and experience to help drive the design, development and maintenance of our FLOW-3D user interfaces.

Successful Candidates Will:

• Be quick to learn and excited about learning, as well as teaching, new software methods, technologies, and ideas
• Be passionate about keeping up to date with software best practices and code quality
• Be a strong advocate for software craftsmanship and take pride in your work
• Thrive in environments with minimal guidance
• Take initiative to help improve software development processes
• Enjoy collaborating across teams with excellent communication

Responsibilities

• Participates and contributes to the design, implementation and maintenance of new elements in our FLOW-3D user interfaces and supporting applications
• With minimal oversight beyond high level direction, utilize expertise to problem solve given limited information
• Help ensure all designs are implemented as safely and as robustly as possible and adhere to proper software engineering guidelines and practices
• Actively participate in identifying inefficiencies in the software development process and work with team members to continuously improve these processes
• Identify risks in code, features and designs; communicate risks appropriately and take necessary action
• Focus on high priority tasks and assignments while simultaneously supporting the team to ensure overall success
• Collaborate with support/sales team when necessary to help resolve customer issues/questions
• Encourage, train, and mentor team members to help them grow and excel
• Conduct code reviews

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in software engineering, computer engineering, or computer science
• Deep understanding of modern C++ (including standards); object-oriented principles and design, especially design patterns (3+ years)
• Strong ability to read and learn from existing code
• Strong understanding of 3D Graphics Programming with OpenGL (2+ years)
• Experience developing cross-platform applications, specifically on Windows and Linux (3+ years)
• Experience employing systems, tools, standards, and procedures to drive performance
• Extensive experience developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions, preferably in an Agile environment
• Experience designing user interfaces (2+ years)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and test-driven development
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with some of our tools and secondary languages: Qt framework, FORTRAN, Python, Bash scripting, CMake, Git, and JIRA
• Experience with other CAE or visualization software

Benefits

Flow Science offers an exceptional benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, vision insurances, life and disability insurances, 401(k) and profit-sharing plans with generous employer matching, and an incentive compensation plan that offers a year-end bonus opportunity up to 30% of base salary.