Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.

Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

THE ROLE: Sensus, a Xylem brand, seeks to hire a Senior Software Engineer. As a member of the Software Engineering Team, they will architect, design, develop, test and support Java software applications as part of RNI - our flagship software product AMI application. . In addition they provide an important role in helping DevOps with the development and maintenance of the RNI installer and related development/build environments. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to succeed in a fast paced, fluid environment, while ensuring that project initiatives are met. If you are excited and passionate to work on state-of-the art technology trends,we want to hear from you!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES/PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Desire to build game-changing software applications for Utility industry
• Additional desire to do DevOps-related development
• Take great personal pride in building robust software
• Strong sense of ownership and drive
• Passionate about mission critical applications, and distributed systems
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong customer focus
• A problem solver that will work with what is available, look for ways to improve things
• Recognize the importance of getting things done and done well
• Highly collaborative
• High initiative

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, LICENSE/CERTIFICATION:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in a software development related field
• Commercial software development experience
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, and/or C++), preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform developing Systems software
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Ability to work within a team environment of engineers to meet aggressive goals and high quality standards

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with online distributed systems, real-time systems, platform infrastructure design and implementation
• Experience with communications and/or networking solutions design and development
• Delivered mission critical services or services operating in a 24x7 environment
• Extensive experience with multi-threading and concurrency in large scale high availability systems
• Previously held a technical leadership role for several complete large-scale projects
• Have experience with build/deployment tools and related environmental artifacts (such as Jenkins, Jira, Subversion, Git, Docker)
• Experience with Agile (SCRUM, RUP, XP), OO modeling, web services, UNIX, middleware and data mining systems

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Light lifting (20-25 lbs.), office environment
• Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office setting free from any disagreeable elements.
• Standard weekly job hours: 40 hours

EOE/FEMALES/MINORITIES/PROTECTED VETERANS/DISABLED