Priva

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Your future ecosystem

Priva started as a hardware company and transformed into an innovative software company that grew to become the global market leader in horticulture and building automation. Today we are a high-tech company that develops hardware, software, and digital services in the field of climate control, energy-saving, and optimal reuse of water. We do this for horticulture, indoor and city farming, as well as utility buildings such as offices, retail, hotels, and hospitals.

We are proud to be working with over 600 colleagues, in 16 international branch offices divided over 12 countries together with over 400 international installation partners to deliver our sustainable solutions and services in more than 100 countries.

One of our embedded teams consists of a Product Owner, a Scrum Master, a Tech Lead, three QAs, and five Developers. You’ll be joining this team as an Embedded Software Developer. They work on embedded software for the main process controller and smart end devices responsible for sensing and actuation in the building automation.

How You Add Value

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Senior C++ Embedded Developer with at least 5 years of C++ experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in modern C++ (C++17 or later) and extensive experience in embedded systems development. You will be critical in designing and implementing software for our service-oriented, event-driven architecture, contributing to around 15+ modules running on our embedded platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, performant, and reliable C++ code for our embedded systems.
• Work closely with other software developers, testers, field support engineers, and product management to implement and maintain solutions.
• Communicate technical ideas, insights, and data to a large (often non-technical) audience clearly and accurately.
• Document and maintain technical design overviews and implementation details for other software developers.
  
  
  

Who You Are

We are looking for an embedded developer with broad knowledge and interests. Furthermore, we will read your resume to find the following:

• At least 5 years of experience in embedded C++ (C++17 preferred) development on Linux;
• Good understanding of object-oriented design and design patterns, following modern C++ best practices (RAII, SOLID principles, clean code, modular architecture, etc.);
• Experience developing for multithreaded embedded environments, with a focus on writing highly efficient, robust, and maintainable code;
• Experience with serial communication protocols;
• Experience with MQTT and/or other networking protocols;
• Affinity for working with hardware;
• Agile / Scrum experience is an advantage;
• Experience with Yocto, GitHub, and unit testing (for example, using GoogleTest) is an advantage;
• Experience using testing frameworks such as Robot Framework is a plus.
  
  
  

What You Get

In numbers:

• A gross salary based on your experience in the range of € 4.000,- and € 5.500,- based on 40 hours a week;
• We find a healthy work-life balance important: working flexible hours combined with 30 vacation days a year and the option to buy more;
• 8% holiday allowance;
• Travel allowance of € 0,23/km with a daily maximum of 150 kilometers.
  
  
  

For your own sustainability:

• Be secured with our pension plan;
• Feel engaged and join our participation plan;
• Keep on learning with your personal education possibilities and budget;
• Be happy and fit by using our healthy cafeteria, our free on-premises fitness where you can participate in CrossFit, Pilates and Spinning classes or play table tennis or table football.
  
  
  

Our values

Priva's mission is to create an optimal environment where people can work, grow and develop. We offer worldwide solutions for horticulture and building automation. Our ambition is to be known as the leading technology and service provider for sustainable urban deltas. We are proud that our solutions result in lower consumption of natural resources and contribute to some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our culture is built around our core values; sustainable, innovation, make it happen and human. In our latest employment survey, our colleagues mainly described our culture as: open, ambitious, innovative, friendly, committed, informal, flexible and down to earth. We aim to be a dynamic, fast-paced, flat and informal organization, where our colleagues have the space to grow and develop.

We believe that in order to be successful, it is important to include people with different perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. Every day, we continue to build our open culture with people who are driven to turn our vision into reality, regardless of who they love, where they are from, or what they believe in. We encourage and celebrate people to voice their opinions and be their authentic selves.

Apply

Does this make you smile, and do you see yourself as our new Embedded Engineer? Apply below or contact us for more information. We’ll get back to you within two weeks, we are keen to get to know you!