Spectro Inlets is looking for a talented entry or junior experience level Pythonista that wants to help us build high uptime systems software, complex end-user GUI applications, data treatment and visualization solutions, cloud hosted data interaction and internal and external tools.

At Spectro Inlets you will join a group of clever, ambitious and hardworking people, who are passionate about building high-tech equipment driven by clever software solutions. Spectro Inlets is a young start-up and therefore its software products are young as well. This means that as a part of the newly formed software team, that is part of a development team headed by talented individuals from a range of technical backgrounds, you will get to build as well as influence the various software projects in our portfolio, while they are still in their early life or infancy. Furthermore, through this job, you will help Spectro Inlets contribute to solving big problems with a green profile within Power-to-X and battery research, biogas production and industrial fermentation.

If this sounds interesting to you, read on for more details about the job and what kind of profile you should have in order to be a good match.

About the job

The job consists of; developing software to support the company objectives. More specifically:

• The continued development of the embedded (on industrial PC) software solution which centers around; handling of system states and automated system maintenance, data acquisition and quantification, data reporting via industrial bus communication and to databases in the cloud, robustness/high uptime.

• The continued development of our end-user data acquisition software and various other end-user tools which centers around; integrated multi-equipment data acquisition and synchronisation, well-balanced GUI with just the right options, good and smooth UX, automation of commonly used procedures, adaptability.

• User facing documentation with high relevance for our research customers

• The development of internally and externally focused data treatment options including visualization

• The development and maintenance of tools for internal use e.g. for equipment configuration, QC, and development and support tools

• Relational database design

• The job is local only. Spectro Inlets is located at Ole Maaløes Vej 3, 2200 København N.

About you

• You have a master degree in computer science, software engineering or similar and have recently graduated or have a few years of experience

• You consider Python your primary and most beloved programming language and you take pride in your existing skills within it and in enhancing them at every opportunity

• You are interested of getting into the field of equipment interfacing, embedded software and user facing scientific software

• You enjoy and thrive in a collaborative problem solving environment, where we work together to create high quality software

• You are thorough and take pride in the your contributions and in quality

• You enjoy talking to non-programmers about software on their terms and would like to expand this skill to help customers (internal or external) define or redefine their needs

• You like the challenge of adapting to (quickly) changing requirements

• You identify with the values of agile software development such as; fast and iterative delivery of workable products, customer communication, continuous learning and making it possible to quickly and efficiently respond to change.

About the existing technology stack

The software side of Spectro Inlets is first and foremost a Python shop. The existing portfolio of software projects are centered around the following programming patterns and technologies:

• Message passing concurrency via the actor model

• Interfacing with and implementation of REST interfaces

• Web development with Flask

• Serial communication (pySerial, PyModbus)

• Python tooling like mypy, Black, pytest, invoke etc.

• Git and GitHub workflows for version control

• MySQL/MariaDB databases

• Amazon service (EC2, RDS and possibly Lightsail)

• Docker

Experience with any of these from work, education or spare time projects etc. will be considered an advantage, but not a necessity. Since the role is entry or junior experience level, we will place much higher value on the personality match, general skills and education as outlined in the previous section and so this list serves mainly to illustrate expected work content.

About the company and our business areas

Spectro Inlets is a young start-up originally spun out from DTU. The company sells analysis instrument products based on a groundbreaking microchip interface technology to mass spectrometry. Our novel mass spectrometer solution can uniquely offer robust in-line measurements, and give an unprecedented insight into chemical processes such as fermentation (enzyme production, biogas production, food and beverage production), denitrification, and environmental monitoring.

At Spectro Inlets we work with two different business areas, each with its associated products and SW/HW development: (i) Measurements of gas concentrations in liquids, for industrial application, to which we supply a sensor technology (the LGA) including its embedded software for system control, measurement and data processing. (ii) The electrochemical research area, including Power-to-X and battery material R&D, to which we supply a table-top research instrument (the EC-MS) including end-user data acquisition software and in the future data visualization and data treatment tools.

Contact and application

We will screen and invite candidates for interviews on an ongoing basis. For further information regarding the job, please do not hesitate to contact Kenneth Nielsen on +45 42 25 55 35.

All applications will be welcomed and considered on the relative merits of the applicant against the role profile for the position regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, family status, age, or religion.

Please send application including:

• CV and exam certificate including grades

• Cover letter

• One module/class/function group-level example of Python code you wrote and are particularly proud of. This may be; an educational assignment, spare time project or open source contribution. You may include it as an attached document or a link to publicly available source code. If the assignment/module has more contributors, please describe your role in it.

Application deadline: November 10, 2021.