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Sr Backend Software Developer (Initial 6 month contract)

Waters Corporation
United States, Delaware, New Castle
159 Lukens Drive (Show on map)
Sep 15, 2025

Sr Backend Software Developer (Initial 6 month contract)



Req. #
23734

Job Family
DE - Development Engineering


Location

US-DE-New Castle



Overview

TA Instruments is a world leading Scientific Instrumentation company with a focus on Material Characterization.

Our instruments are pivotal in: Electric Cars, 3D Printing, batteries, recyclable plastics, space suits, candy that melts in your mouth and not your hands, paint that goes on smooth and dries without streaks, even ensuring your French fries have the perfect crunch to them! Material Science uniquely spans the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing.

Our instruments and software come together to aid in accelerating the design of new materials as well as the quality of manufacturing those materials.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Developer (ASP.NET) to join our Research and Development organization and contribute to the continued success of our Thermal Analysis and Rheology products.

This is a hybrid contract position with an initial 6 months, with an opportunity to get extended or potentially hired full-time (Requiring on-site for three days a week)



Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer you will:

    Research, design, develop and release/maintain: Application, User interface, Data analysis, Instrument control software for thermal analysis, rheological, and calorimetric instruments.
  • Evaluate system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications.
  • Responsible for ongoing support of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs and designing solutions to problematic programming.
  • Working within a formal development process covering the full development lifecycle.
  • Work in collaboration with the agile team and appropriate experts to implement your designs.
  • Provide code and supporting documentation in accordance with the coding guidelines, quality processes and applicable procedures, including team's definition of DONE.
  • Work in collaboration with the agile team to generate automated and manual tests to verify implemented software.
  • Provide work estimation and tracking information to support management decisions and planning.
  • Keep a pro-active attitude to insure continuous improvement of the software quality, work process and individual skills.
  • Provide contributions to the application architecture with a focus on scalability, maintainability, security and performance.
  • Provide product specific and technical support to internal and external users where appropriate.

As a Team Member you will:

  • Participate in all team meetings and ceremonies in direct collaboration with other sites, provide input and feedback, take ownership on identified improvements.
  • Actively participate in learning and sharing activities either during informal or formal training and demos.
  • Demonstrate continuous technical improvement.

This is a hybrid contract position with an initial 6 months, with an opportunity to get extended or potentially hired full-time (Requiring on-site for three days a week)



Qualifications

Education:

  • You have a Bachelors Degree (preferably in a science related subject or in engineering)

Experience:

  • C#, .NET, ASP.NET, Web API
  • Experience building RESTful APIs
  • Strong technical experience in client server programming
  • Good knowledge of software engineering principles
  • Develop an application from end to end - from the database to the user interface.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
  • Good knowledge of multi-threading & tasks
  • Database - Design and code databases with a specific language like SQL.
  • You care about software; you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions and experiences.
  • You have an eye for software design and can talk eloquently on a range of topics due to your experiences and also from reading and experimentation.

Desired:

  • Analytical Instrumentation Domain
  • Building from the ground up in small teams

You care about software; you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions and experiences. You have an eye for software design and can talk eloquently on a range of topics due to your experiences and from reading and experimentation.

This is a hybrid contract position with an initial 6 months, with an opportunity to get extended or potentially hired full-time (Requiring on-site for three days a week)



Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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