Junior IT Developer (MFC)
WITRON Group
About the Role
WITRON is looking for a motivated Junior IT Developer (MFC) to support the Material Flow Control (MFC) team, focusing on intralogistics and automation. This role involves working with technologies across the company's distribution centers, where your code will manage the movement of goods, interpret sensor data, optimize transport paths, and interface between hardware and the WITRON Warehouse Management System (WWMS).
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team leads to create technical solutions for the existing WWMS application.
- Areas of work include:
- Routing configuration for new warehouses.
- Traffic analysis.
- Coding new or improving existing action point handling.
- Debugging or researching reported issues or questions around traffic routing.
- Developing new and expanding existing interfaces to add features and support new hardware components.
- Develop, test, and deploy change requests, projects, and assignments in a collaborative international team or individually.
- Support and improve existing and/or new applications and functionalities.
- Create technical documents and specifications for solutions to ensure maintainability.
- Collaborate with the analyst team on topics arising during project ramp-up, development, testing, and after final acceptance.
- Participate in on-site project commissioning and ramp-up for North American projects (USA and Canada).
- Engage in limited client communication within the respective field and make independent decisions based on knowledge.
- Responsibilities will expand based on experience, knowledge level, and personal preference.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Proficiency in C, with good working knowledge of C++.
- Practical experience developing software in C/C++ environments.
- Solid understanding of software development fundamentals, coding practices, and problem-solving techniques.
- Exposure to background processes, multithreading, and system-level programming concepts.
- Basic knowledge of PL/SQL.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in English with local and international colleagues and customers, across technical and non-technical contexts.
- Ability to be a team player, work and support the team under pressure, and take responsibility within your area of expertise.
- A "Can-Do" attitude towards solving complex problems.
- Helpful but not required: Familiarity with the Visual Studio IDE, including Team Foundation Server (TFS)/Azure DevOps source control, debugging, and day-to-day development workflows.
- Helpful but not required: Exposure to the logistics industry/terminology.
- Helpful but not required: Exposure to large codebases.
Qualifications
- Experience should include project design, coding, testing, delivery, and technical documentation of GitHub projects, or personal coding examples, class projects, or previous professional assignments.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience combined with some educational experience.
- Helpful but not required: Logistics exposure.
Scheduling & Travel
- Must be able to travel locally and internationally (up to 60%).
- This is primarily an in-office position when not traveling.
- Occasional remote work is available after 6 months, depending on individual work-style, performance, and gained knowledge.
Compensation
- Salary: $72,000 - $78,000k.