Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II at Wenco International Mining Systems

Wenco International Mining Systems (), a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM), provides industry-leading, innovative technologies to customers in the mining and material movement sectors, enabling sustainable and safe operations.

Wenco has R&D offices in the Greater Vancouver, Canada and Brisbane, Australia. This role is based in Richmond.

As Wenco continues to build our next generation of technology, we are looking for a full-time Intermediary Software Engineer with skills in the development, deployment and monitoring of highly available, robust services. You will work as a member of an agile software team, focusing on Wenco’s Underground product. We are seeking someone who is self-motivated, independent and capable of delivering useful products.

We are building a completely new product, with a small 4-person team:

• 1x Linux C++ developer (onboard & backend processing, implementing business logic and OpenAPI endpoints)
• 1x Web frontend developer
• 1x Experienced manager (25+ years in embedded mining software)
• 1x You

The new product will serve the underground mining market. The onboard product includes an embedded computer and an Android tablet as the operator interface. The mobile equipment communicates with a Kubernetes backend server and receives instructions from the equipment dispatcher and production planning. Both backend and onboard systems will be hosted on Linux; the User interface will be on an Android tablet, using Flutter.

The team will have freedom of technology selection and is expected to be highly autonomous with high velocity. This is a small team now, with growth opportunities as the team stabilizes.

Primarily as a backend / business logic developer, you should be proficient in C++, OpenAPI implementation and a Linux toolset under Ubuntu (WSL) targeting a Debian distribution. You may also learn Flutter (Dart) to assist on the User Interface side. UI work is not your primary mandate, but you may contribute when needed.

Initial focus will be on developing the vehicle onboard business logic and endpoints used by the web application developed by the UI developer. You will then gradually transition to back-office services and endpoints used by the dispatcher’s web application and 3rd-party web endpoints.

Development

• Design and implement robust, reliable, traceable and resilient software solutions for C++ embedded/mobile applications
• Contribute to design and implementation across the full stack, including backend web services onboard and server-side
• Document your work. Design and code.
• Support technical services and operations teams with investigation and reproduction of customer issues.

Technical leadership

• Be relentless in pursuit of continuous improvement
• Promote a culture of quality and technical excellence within the development team
• Interface with product management/owners and developers to define and improve requirements and test cases

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience
• C/C++ experience for 5 years
• Experience across the full development lifecycle from concept to development, testing, deployment and monitoring
• Experience with Scrum practices
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing and deployment

• Experience with containerization/orchestration and tools such as Kubernetes
• Commercial experience delivering products onto cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience and/or knowledge of the mining industry
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Systems/Software Engineering or equivalent
• Some international travel (