Summary / Role Purpose
The R&D Engineer II joins the Release Management Unit and is responsible for the development of Ansys Licensing as a Service (LaaS), a high-availability API service hosted on Azure. In this role, the R&D Engineer II will use technical and problem-solving skills to collaborate with the team to tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives.
Licensing as a Service is Ansys’s platform for a web-hosted licensing solution that is quickly growing and striving to reach its potential. LaaS hosts multiple license models each with their own requirements and use case. It is a business-critical service that requires rigorous and thorough testing to ensure it meets, and continues to meet, the stringent requirements of its growing user base.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Performs development activities, including the design, implementation, maintenance, testing and documentation of software modules and sub-systems
- Understands and employs best practices
- Performs bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
- Understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues
- Works under the general supervision of a development manager
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 2 years’ experience or MS
- Strong computing skills with demonstrated knowledge of RESTful APIs, JSON schemas, sustainable development practices, requirements and needs of maintaining a business-critical service
- Technical knowledge and commercial experience with developing a distributed API service written in TypeScript using Node.JS as a framework in an Agile development environment
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Technical knowledge and commercial experience with OpenAPI specifications, Azure tools and resources (Bicep, Application Insights, Cosmos DB, Kubernetes, etc.), Node.js
- Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial organization
- Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team