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Are you passionate about creating outstanding Developer Experiences? Do you have experience with technologies such as NixOS, Linux, and Python? And would you like to use your skills to make a real difference for millions of people with hearing loss around the world?
Then you may have found your next opportunity at Demant.
Join Connectivity and Embedded Software (CESW)
You will join the CESW Tools team, a group of 24 colleagues with highly specialized skills. Together, we develop and maintain the tools and solutions that enable our engineers to create some of the world’s leading hearing care products. You will become part of our Flow team, currently consisting of nine colleagues. We are an informal and humorous team with ambitions and a shared passion for making software development better.
“The Flow team shapes the future of developer experience within Device Software. We want to provide the best possible development environment for our users, who are primarily software engineers working with embedded software development for hearing instruments under Linux. In short, this means providing great tooling, top-notch automation, and removing any kind of friction from the development process.”
— Per Sandholm, your new manager
The Flow team is part of CESW Tools and the Device Software department in R&D. What makes Demant a particularly interesting place to work is that we have the entire product journey under one roof. We develop our own chipsets, firmware, and hardware, have our own production facilities, and even our own sales organization. If you have a question, the answer is often just a few steps away.
Help us create a better developer experience
Our developers work towards an ambitious goal: creating advanced, low-power, audio-enabled devices that meet the high standards of medical devices. As a result, you will work closely with engineers developing embedded software, often in resource-constrained environments.
Your primary responsibility will be to improve the developer experience across the software development lifecycle. Initially, your focus will include:
- Optimizing build flows and reducing build times and friction
- Improving development environments, including editors, debuggers, AI-assisted development, command-line tools, packaging, infrastructure as code, and reproducible environments
- Enhancing build, test, documentation, and debugging tooling
- Identifying bottlenecks in development workflows and finding pragmatic, sustainable solutions
- Helping establish and continuously improve a strong software development culture
About you
You probably have a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar field, combined with practical experience profiling and optimizing software development workflows.
More importantly, you are curious about technology and motivated by making life easier for other developers. You take a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach to challenges, enjoy collaborating with others, and are comfortable working in a SAFe environment.
You don't need to be an expert in everything below. We value your ability to learn just as much as your existing technical skills. Experience with some of the following would be a strong advantage:
- Nix and NixOS
- Linux and its subsystems
- Python
- Build systems such as Make, SCons, and GCC toolchains
- Git and Gerrit, including submodules and plumbing commands
- Docker
- Unix/POSIX programming and scripting
- ARM microprocessor architectures
- C and/or Java, particularly Java in a test environment
“We encourage candidates with at least a couple of years of experience to apply. We will match the tasks to your level of experience and make sure there is always an opportunity to develop, explore new technologies, and take on new areas.
— Per Sandholm, Manager, Flow Team
A mission that matters
At Demant, our mission is simple: To help people with hearing loss experience the sounds of life.
That mission is at the heart of everything we do. It drives our innovation, our focus on efficiency, and our commitment to delivering high-quality products that make a meaningful difference to people's everyday lives.
We believe the best results come from working together. We share knowledge, give each other feedback, and support one another in reaching our common goals. You will find an informal, creative, and respectful environment where people are encouraged to contribute, learn, and make an impact.
If improving how developers work sounds exciting to you, and you want your work to contribute to technology that improves people's lives, we would love to hear from you.
Join our team!
Kindly submit your application as soon as possible, as we are screening applications on a continuous basis. Deadline for the application is October 21. Please note that we only accept applications via our online recruitment system.
If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Senior Manager Per Sandholm at [email protected].
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Recruitment Process
We will begin inviting candidates for interviews after the application deadline.
The interviews are planned for midt to end of October. We expect that the starting date will be December 1st.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
