Experienced software engineer for a more climate-resistant society

As experienced Software Engineer, you will join the Product Development Team and work on the core of our product platforms. In collaboration with the domain experts, you will help in defining the requirements and writing the specifications. In collaboration with your team, you will contribute in designing the solutions and implementing the functionalities.

Our products involve a panel of technical challenges: open APIs, third-party integrations, demanding and performant user interfaces, ingestion of large amounts of data with different structures... You will contribute to solving these challenges while keeping in mind the big picture: from the product vision to the customer's practical expectations.

You will help promoting software development best practices within the Product Development Team and take part in continuously improve our ways to communicate and work together.

As part of a growing team, you will help coaching new colleagues, onboard them to our products and methodology, and provide them guidance so they can improve their coding practices.

• Capturing Requirements: Outline the functional and non-functional requirements of feature and enhancements requests provided by product owners and ensure that business and technical departments share the same understanding of what needs to be done.
• Design: Elaborate the characteristics of the solution – blue prints, architectural changes, prototypes.
• Develop: Implement the functionalities according to the specifications and design, focusing on performance, maintenability and flexibility.
• Test: Provide means to quickly detect faulty behaviours and prevent regressions.
• Document: Write comprehensive documentation about the works.
• Internal Coaching & Mentorship: Coach internal developers in the Innovation Department, especially in the development of algorithms for flood prediction, to improve their coding practices, efficiency, and overall software development quality.
• Quality Assurance & Code Review: Establish best practices for coding, conduct regular code reviews, and ensure that software is maintainable, scalable, and efficient.

• Experience: At least 8 years of experience in product software development, working within interdisciplinary teams, user-centered design and SaaS environments.
• Technical Expertise:
• Software architectural patterns (and when to, and not to, use them).
• Object-oriented programming and related design patterns.
• Ability to convey ideas, designs and approaches through visual representations (diagrams, UML).
• Proficiency in Python and its eco-system, including Django and FastAPI frameworks.
• Proficiency with the SQL language and structuring relational database. Experience with document or timeseries databases is a plus.
• Understanding of web protocols and standards. Proficiency in frontend development technologies such as Typescript and Vue.JS is a plus.
• Experience with Docker and Docker-Compose.
• Experience in source code management using Git.
• Strategic Thinking: Strong vision for technology, with the capability to understand business goals and align technical decisions with the overall business strategy.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to mentor and lead a development team, with strong communication and coaching abilities. Experience with managing or working closely with external teams is an advantage.
• Languages: Professional English. Dutch or French mother tongue. Active knowledge of a second Belgian language is a plus.

• Experience in the environmental or climate-tech industry, particularly in flood prediction, geospatial data, or related fields.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure) and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with AI/ML algorithms.
• A track record of contributing to open-source projects or participating in the tech community.

Besides a competitive salary, complemented by a wide range of fringe benefits, we also offer you:

• Personal development. Opportunities to expand your professional boundaries, and adanve your career within a growing product development team
• Impact. You participate in an integrated, climate-adaptive and sustainable water management
• Responsibility. You have a responsible position. Autonomy and own initiative are important.
• Participation in a growing company with a start-up mentality (horizontal structure) that is fully committed to innovation.
• Flexibility. With opportunities for working from home and choice of workplace: Leuven, Ghent, Antwerp, Gembloux.
• Dynamic and respectful working environment. Motivating and open corporate culture. Read below what our employees themselves say about this

If you are a talented, forward-thinking software developer with a passion for mentoring others and building innovative technologies, we'd love to hear from you

If you'd like, feel free to add a personal note to your CV in just a few paragraphs. There's no need for a formal cover letter - just let us know why you're interested in the vacancy.

Apply now and mail to

humanresources@hydroscan.be.

Availability of water and security of supply are a huge challenge in tomorrow's world. In addition, climate change and urbanisation mean that people are increasingly facing extreme situations of flooding and drought ...

HydroScan, as an independent Belgian company founded in 2003, aims to respond to the above challenges. We are a growing and leading expert in integrated and sustainable water management. A frontrunner in smart water solutions provider (Internet of Water), combining technology solutions with consulting services.

The combination of our know-how in advanced modelling with real-time data resulted in the following software and platform offerings, among others:

- Software Flood4Cast for urban flood forecasting - First implementations: Pilots Province of Flemish Brabant, Province of Walloon Brabant, National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (Vietnam), Germany: Heidelberg, Germersheim, Neumarkt– Related to Unesco's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 13)

- Decision support platform NRWCOCKPIT for leak management and leak detection software LeakRedux - First customers: De Watergroep, Pidpa, Vivaqua, Vietnam: Hawacom, Gia Dinh ... France: Evreux, Sogedo, Sivom, Valence ... – Related to UN SDG 6

Our most important result areas for our customers:

• KClimate-adaptive management of water resources including spatial master planning, rainwater and drought plans, solution scenarios and remedial measures, such as integrated and sustainable urban drainage system

• Accurate and real-time forecasting of floods and risk management

• Reduction of non-billable water consumption through leak detection software and asset management at water supply companies

• Cost-saving sewer and asset management

• Smart on-site water management (industry and residential sites) including water audits, management of local water infrastructure, optimal use of natural water resources, optimal reuse ...

Our clients are local authorities and their partnerships (water intermunicipal companies, municipalities, provinces...), water supply companies, industry and other private partners, both local and international.

We are about 45 enthusiastic and highly specialised employees in the water domain. With Belgium as its home market, HydroScan is internationally oriented today and is currently expanding in France, Germany and Southeast Asia.

We have offices in Leuven, Ghent, Antwerp and Gembloux.

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