Senior Python Developer

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>We Cook iT is an international software house that delivers software development to its corporate customers by providing highly skilled, communicative IT professionals to build their customized products through outsourcing, nearshoring and turn-key projects’ solutions.</p><p>How do we differentiate ourselves? By investing in the professional growth and personal care of our software developers. We provide them with a premium service so that they can do the same for our customers.</p><p>Our talented team holds software engineers and sales experts, spread across offices in Europe and South America, and we represent a go-getting and driven company who aims to be an inspiring software house, knowing our future relies on IT.</p><p>We Cook iT stand for growth, support, dynamic, companionship and communication and we’re looking for a [main characteristic] [position] to join team We Cook iT. Our head office is located in Portugal in the heart of Lisbon (Avenida da Liberdade) and we work mainly for the European market.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Project domain:</strong> fashion industry, adidas 4D algorithm and tool development<br/> <br/> The contractor is supposed to work independently on selected work packages according to his expertise and skills. The contractor develops and maintains algorithms, libraries and tools in the adidas 4D project. adidas 4D is an initiative inside adidas to create 3D printed midsoles and components in adidas. There is an in-house creation pipeline specifically for creating performance midsoles using various types of lattice geometries. The algorithms behind this pipeline are written in C/C++ and Python. The frontend to this pipeline is a Python-Library, a web-based (JuPyter/ThreeJS) based graphical user interface and Rhino/Grasshopper components.<br/> We are looking for a software developer that can develop and maintain software components in this pipeline. While the main focus will be in Python development, we are looking for developers with a hands-on mindset that aren’t afraid of also touching C/C++ and JavaScript code. Our CI/CD pipelines are based on Jenkins and mainly deploy into AWS services.<br/> <br/> <br/> <strong>Background:</strong><br/> <br/> The purpose is to enhance our current 3D-printing pipeline using cloud-based Finite Element Analysis. As similar expertise and experience is not available within the internal development team, the contractor will serve as the principal expert for those topics. Meetings take place on a (daily to bi-weekly) basis (based on the project phase and progress).<br/> <br/> <br/> <strong>Tasks:</strong></p><ul><li>Implementation of a graphical cell re-orientation component in the JuPyter creation</li><li>pipeline. This entails a Python algorithm for datastructure manipulation and some minor changes to gather input from the ThreeJS graphical frontend.</li><li>Implementation of closed loop optimization inside our cloud based finite element analysis system.</li><li>Implementation of a web-based (Python backend) monitoring system that shows the progress of closed loop optimizations running in the cloud</li><li>Implementation of an interface component to call FEA-simulation from</li><li>Rhino/Grasshoppe<br/>  </li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>Computer science degree</li><li>At least 5 years of experience</li><li>Advanced skills in Python</li><li>Basic skills in C/C++</li><li>Basic skills in JavaScript/TypeScript</li><li>Some skills in 3D rendering / computer graphics are a plus</li><li>Basic CI/CD experience is a plus</li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p>If you are looking for a fast-paced multinational company and have a desire to be part of the exciting state-of-the-art projects across Europe, send us your application in English.</p><p>We’re looking forward to hearing from you!</p>