Senior Software Developer

About P P Optica

P P Optica (PPO) is using brand new technology to transform an old industry that affects everyone on the planet: the food industry. We apply a complex and highly sophisticated mix of hardware, software and huge datasets to improve both the safety and quality of the food we eat.

PPO is on a mission to become the world s leading food information company. We are moving beyond simple detection to provide real-time, actionable insights that help food processors optimize yield, reduce waste, and ensure safety at a global scale.

We re a truly diverse team in every sense of the word, and our team is incredibly smart. Our culture is respectful and caring. PPO is a well-funded, scaling company with opportunities for career growth in every part of the organization.

If you re looking for an opportunity to tackle challenging problems that affect everyone on the planet, PPO is the place for you.

This role is a hybrid role, where you ll work part of the time from home and part-time from PPO s office in Waterloo Ontario.

The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $130,000 CAD annually. The final offer will be determined based on a combination of factors, including:

• Relevant skills and experience:
  We assess each candidate s background, achievements, and demonstrated capabilities.
• Internal equity:
  We strive to maintain consistency and fairness across roles within our organization, aligning compensation with existing team members in comparable roles.

We are committed to transparency and fairness in our hiring process and welcome conversations about compensation throughout the recruitment process.

This posting is for a current vacancy within our software team. As a key member of the software team, you will be responsible for a range of projects focused on the software platform for our Smart Imaging Systems. Collecting, analyzing, and making decisions on millions of data points per second, our Linux-based software platform is the  brains  of our market-leading detection system.

From the development of data-capture pipelines to image processing utilizing machine learning modules, you will use your platform background to ensure the overall stability and performance of our systems.

• As a Senior Software Developer, you will be responsible for the development of entire feature sets from definition, design, management of development to full release.
• Act as a Project Owner, taking full accountability for scoping, staffing, and defining success for major roadmap initiatives.
• Negotiate technical options with Product Managers and stakeholders, moving beyond stating problems to providing actionable, business-aligned options.
• Design and develop software for complex, multi-instrument, smart imaging systems.
• Testing and deployment of new software releases.
• Designing data collection requirements for new product development.
• Support for on-site system commissioning, data collection, and support.
• Enhance and optimize tooling for the data collection and model development processes focused on reducing total time-to-market.
• Develop tools for use across multiple environments, including in-house development servers, remotely deployed systems and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Work with Python-based AI, machine-learning and chemo metric algorithms for data analysis.
• Document the use, internals, and installation of software systems for coworkers and customers.
• Play a lead role in evolving our software platform to support Modular Inspection Systems, ensuring seamless over-the-air (OTA) updates and integration across diverse plant environments.
• Architect systems capable of processing over 16 million data points per minute while maintaining the stability required for 24/7 industrial production.

• Evaluation and integration of software development infrastructure.
• Software support for hardware and applications engineering groups.
• Work with external suppliers for hardware and software (e.g. cloud infrastructure).
• Support a range of physical and virtual servers running Windows and Linux.
• Involvement in network maintenance, security, redundancy planning and architecture for local and cloud applications, often with huge data sets.

You are a high-level thinker who wants to work in a fast-paced, growing company that is helping its customers to be more successful through the use of innovative products and solutions. You thrive in a multidisciplinary environment, translating complex concepts from spectroscopy, chemometrics, and hardware engineering into robust software solutions. You re results-oriented and care about ensuring that our designs meet high standards of performance and quality.

You have a positive attitude, care about doing things right, and are motivated by making a positive impact.

Software

Experience:

• Solid experience with software development processes and tooling.
• Experience with the management of software projects (new feature releases).
• Strong…