R&D Software Engineer .NET (Hybrid)

Location: Madrid, Spain

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of €320 million and a staff of 1,200, it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

Thales Cybersecurity & Digital Identity is a global leader in digital security, bringing trust to an increasingly connected world. We design and deliver a wide range of products, software and services based on two core technologies: digital identification and data protection.

With the massive surge of electronic travel documents and national eID cards, Thales Digital & Security global business unit is supporting border agencies, government authorities and airports to exploit technology convergence to gain consistent, comprehensive border, visa management and document verification worldwide, that will:

• Deliver seamless travel with border control applications
• Offer convenience for travelers for fast and secure border crossing
• Improve border intelligence for detection and prevention, including some of the most disruptive new technologies like biometrics, machine learning, or micro services.

If you’re looking for new opportunities and ready to join a high-skilled multicultural team, willing to travel occasionally, we are now looking for a .NET Engineer to join our R&D Software team in Madrid.

What will you do?

As an R&D Software Engineer .NET, you will be designing and coding Windows & Linux applications for R&D Products in an agile environment.

• You will be a fully autonomous member of an agile software development team.
• You will be responsible of design, code, testing and integration of hardware
  devices like cameras, document and fingerprint scanners, etc.
• You will conduct research on hardware and software solutions to improve
  biometrics solutions such as face matching and tracking, fingerprints verification,
  liveness detection, etc.
• You will create project documentation and tools to help delivering products to
  customers

About You

To succeed in this job, you should have:

Technical skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or similar.
• At least 5 years' experience in SW Development.
• At least two years in C# .NET development with Visual Studio.
• You should have experience in reactive programming, feel comfortable around software design patterns and be aware of common good practices.
• Experience with Version Control, Code Quality, Continuous Integration and Unit Testing Frameworks is required.
• Fluency in both written and spoken Spanish & English.
• Extremey valuable: Integration of Hardware devices and SDKs. Experience with
  .NET Core, .NET Standard, NuGet, Rx .NET, Apache Kafka, WCF, Web Services
  development or integration, other programming or scripting languages, Visual
  Studio 2017.

Any of the following is a plus:

• Knowledge and experience with Docker
• Cryptography
• Document verification
• Biometrics
• Computer vision
• Machine learning
• Digital photography
• Industrial engineering or electronics

We would like someone to join our team who is creative, passionate about
technical work and detail oriented. We need a team player that is also autonomous
when required.

What do we offer?

• Flexible working hours.
• Intensive working days on Fridays and during August.
• Remote-friendly - 2 days a week working from home.
• Restaurant allowance and social benefits (health insurance, kindergarten).
• Free coffee on-site!

Thales is a company committed to equal opportunities between women and men, and for this reason, we work to raise awareness and disseminate information on the subject both internally and externally.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!