Principal Software Developer Cloud

Location: Montreal

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of Aspen Tech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Aspen Tech is looking for a talented and experienced Developer to join our Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) organization. In this role, you will be a member of an Agile development team responsible for the delivery of next-generation industrial software solutions. This solution will provide a software-defined, data-centric, flexible platform which enables automation for Aspen Tech’s diverse customer base.
As a member of the EOP development team, you’ll work on cutting‑edge industrial edge‑connectivity and distributed‑computing projects that surface data from the plant floor all the way to the cloud. The team focuses on building highly performant data services that securely move and manage massive volumes of information. You’ll help create solutions that configure, contextualize, analyze, and visualize data, making it easily accessible to a wide range of applications.

The EOP platform supports multiple operating systems and serverless cloud‑native technology stacks, giving the team opportunities to work across a diverse set of modern technologies.
This role’s contributions have highly visible impacts on the success and scalability of our software offerings to our customers. Our organization and product are positioned in the market to grow at a rapid pace over the next decade with varied opportunities for career growth.

Your Impact

Actively participate with team members as part of a scaled Agile organization.

Take high level strategic requirements and work with a team to refine them into actionable user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.

Produce high-quality, reliable, performant, and fault tolerant code to meet strategic business objectives.

Debug integration and performance problems.

Contribute to a culture of accountability and collaboration across a variety of support, development, security, and product teams.

Continually demonstrate adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements.

Stay current with industry trends and best practices around cloud native and Software-as-a-Service technologies.

Demonstrate effective communication skills as a participant in a variety of Agile ceremonies.

What You'll Need

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

8-12 years of related experience OR an advanced degree with less experience.

Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, services, architecture, and container orchestration.

Language requirement:

French: A1 (advanced)
English level C1 (advanced), the position requires interactions with international clients.

Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful APIs

Practical, working experience with several of the following:

Databases:
Mongo

DB, Postgres, MSSQLProgramming

Languages:

Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Python, Lua Java Script  Frameworks:
Angular, React Continuous Integration:
Azure Dev Ops Pipelines, Git Hub Actions Cloud:
Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform Operating Systems:
Windows, Linux Observability and Monitoring:
Open Telemetry Automated  testing frameworks:
Playwright Identity and access management: OAuth Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Architecture Expertise:
Microservices, REST API Design Data platforms and integrations:
Inmation, Aveva PI Connect, Microsoft Fabric

Basic knowledge of IoT or Edge devices and an understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, constraints, and risks.

Experience with Agile development frameworks such as SAFe or Scrum.

Strong personal project management skills; able to be self-directed and capable of working effectively in an environment with a high degree of change.

Strong technical leadership skills with a willingness to coach and mentor team members.

Strong object-oriented design and debugging skills.

Willingness to contribute ideas and solutions while honoring and supporting the ideas of others.

Passionate about finding creative solutions to problems, and pride in well-crafted code.