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# Software architect

- **Company:** Nearfield Instruments
- **Location:** Rotterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Automation of Tests, C Sharp (Programming Language), Software Quality, Continuous Integration, High-Level Architecture, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Software Organization, Large Language Models, Git, Information Technology, Production Code
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://clk.platform.jobster.com/?at=1786094848&b=&c=df29ac45-dcb8-4fd9-bc87-9df19656aaad&co=5df8f18b-739a-4f5d-b882-58d2d15d643e&cu=9d19ad1d-25d0-4b84-a20f-8340b86a47b4&cw=7&dt=o&fc=a&gc=a&i=9698d2ee-bc92-42d1-9cc9-408fa7011225&ic=NL&mf=c&p=47b4ebce-5907-42d5-9b5e-b30908a42d08&pm=c&po=5f8e30d1-709e-45e1-83c8-a466772a8ebf&pr=1r&r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jobleads.com%2Fregistration%2Fjob%3FcampaignId%3D118%26jmId%3D2377%26jobId%3De77b4faf2167b5e947e9df82b18f84311%26jobLocation%3D1933406143%26utm_campaign%3Djobs%26utm_content%3Djobmarket-id%253D2377%257Clandingpage-id%253Dn%252Fa%257Cjob-id%253D77b4faf2167b5e947e9df82b18f84311%257Cjob-workarea%253D08-08%257Cjob-hierarchy%253D4%257Cjob-salary-benchmark%253D4%257Cjob-industry%253D%257Cjob-location%253Drotterdam%257Cjobtitle%253Dsoftware-architect%26utm_medium%3Djob-external%26utm_source%3Djobster%257Cr-jb%257C__Liplyn%2BIG__%257Cc-nl&s=mp&t=cl&u=ip-c96c6b498870b75e67af1437c04c5e8c&v=f71e77f5-1652-417c-9de9-30fe9972862c&sig=84e458ca4e96828a36e64056b80a2653bc93128c35544ec6ca567a77

## About the Role

As a scaleup, we can provide phenomenal learning and development opportunities but can also be a hectic environment at times. You should understand agile quite well. You embrace the culture and keep working on following aspects such as customer collaboration, Individuals and interaction, responding to change over following a structured plan, prototyping/working solutions over comprehensive documentation.

 * Education: Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Physics or Electronics
 * Above 10 years of experience in software development
 * Above 7 years of experience in software architecture and design
 * Experience with modern software development practices, languages and tools (git, CI/CD, automated testing, JIRA, C#, Python, PlantUML and use of LLMs)
 * Outstanding communication skills: You can describe a complex technical topic in 2 sentences to a non-software person
 * Above 7 years of experience with precision equipment or semiconductor industry
 * Coaching ability, as a technical advisor, you make sure that the team stays up-to-date with relevant knowledge
 * Ability to influence other lead engineers, managers and teams in the organization and convince them of your technical vision and direction

## Description

You will take a responsible for the architecture, design, and lifecycle management of one of the aspects above, while taking the lead in one of the cross-cutting concerns. At the same time, you will have a deep understanding of our domain, our machine and use this to perform requirement-analysis and come up with MVP-proposal so that we can truly be agile., * Collecting requirements from (Internal) Customers and translate product requirements to SW level requirements for large projects

 * Making a high-level architecture and design to fulfill both SW level requirements and product requirements
 * Leading the development of multiple features along with a handful of other developers
 * Troubleshooting technical issues that involve software development, engineering tasks and product releases
 * Driving software quality and reliability through structured testing strategies, validation, and continuous improvement
 * Proactively identifying system-level risks and resolving complex technical issues
 * Leading and supporting the integration of multi-disciplinary subsystems
 * Acting as a mentor and escalation point for senior software engineers

While software architecture is mostly a post-developer role, you are expected to stay hands-on and enjoy locking yourself in and turning your brilliant ideas in to production code. That said, we don't care what language you have developed in as long as its modern.


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