Become part of Hunting & Nature – an exciting consumer business that offers innovative optical products for hunters, birders and outdoor enthusiasts worldwide. Our enthusiasm for innovation and precision drives us to develop products that enrich our customers' lives and take their nature observation and hunting experiences to a new level.

We are looking for a creative and tech-savvy Senior Software Developer (m/f/x) to join our dedicated team and help develop best-in-class digital hunting and nature observation devices. ZEISS Hunting & Nature is currently undergoing an exciting transformation process: in order to position ourselves more dynamically, customer-oriented and future-oriented, we are transferring the company from the ZEISS Group into an independent unit with an investor. The new unit exclusively develops and distributes the innovative optical products for hunters, birders and outdoor enthusiasts of the ZEISS brand.

For you as a Senior Software Developer (m/f/x), this means the opportunity to actively shape our product portfolio in flat hierarchies and to develop innovative digital solutions for our customers.

Your Role

• Define and maintain a scalable, secure and future-proof software platform architecture for portable nature observation and hunting devices

• Develop software in C/C++ for real-time embedded Linux systems

• Supervise work of internal and external partners

• Ensure that software is secure and complies with cyber-security regulations

• Solve technical cross-functional issues with internal and external developers to integrate and deliver quality software

• Work according to the agile process in an agile team using modern software developing methods like CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and test-driven development

• Design and implement the best overall solution given the hardware and project limitations, and taking future technology roadmap into account

• Refine technical requirements provided by product management and systems engineering

• Improve the development process by regular feedback

Your Profile

• A degree in computer science, electronics, or related field

• Extensive experience in software development with open-source embedded Linux (Yocto or similar)

• In-depth knowledge in C/C++ programming and writing well-structured code

• Proven experience with software architecture design

• Hands-on experience with cyber security topics such as CRA, threat modelling, risk assessment, vulnerability scans…

• Strong experience in working in an agile framework using CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps or similar

• Independent and pro-active way of working

• Strong communication, cooperation and teamwork skills make you a real team player

• Good knowledge of English, both spoken and written. German is a plus

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