Lead Developer / Architect (m/f/d)

Trust something new, grow beyond itself and redefine the boundaries of the feasible. That is exactly what our employees can and should live daily. To set the pace with our innovations and make it great. Because there are a lot of fascinating people behind every successful company.

ZEISS employees work in an open and modern environment with numerous development and further training opportunities. Our culture is characterized by expert knowledge and team spirit. All this is supported by the special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl-Zeiss Foundation: to advance science and society together.

Today dare. Inspire tomorrow.

Diversity is part of ZEISS. We look forward to your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, world view, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips

Work where the morning arises. About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the heart of any electronically controlled system, You are no longer to think away from our everyday life – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

Your role technical and methodological guidance of an agile in-house development team

Develop software applications for very complex photomask systems for the production of defect-free photomasks for the chip production of the semiconductor industry in our software developer team

cover all aspects of software development from technical specification, concept creation, design, implementation, test and technical documentation in your versatile and exciting work

in close cooperation with the Product Owner Team to help shape the product backlog in terms of software, derive features and user stories and jointly evaluate, plan and implement the software development team

contribute to customer success in an interdisciplinary team of experts and an international environment at our excellent products in close cooperation with product managers, project managers, testers and architects

as an expert in your field, advise other departments, product vendors and engineers with regard to software applications as well as carry out trainings for handling software systems and GUI

a Master's, equivalent degree or doctoral degree in the field of computer science, engineering or natural science

at least 5 years of professional experience in software development

very good programming skills or several years of experience with the development of Windows applications with C#, C++, .NET, WPF, WinForms, Visual Studio, UML, NUnit, MSTest

Knowledge of hardware-related software development under Windows in C++, C++/CLI, C# and P/Invoke using interfaces such as TCP/IP, RS232, ADS

Knowledge in handling process and project tracking tools (e.g. JIRA, Azure DevOps) and central version management (e.g. GIT)

very good knowledge of German & English as well as pleasure in working in interdisciplinary & intercultural teams

Ready to travel occasionally