Application Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly technical Application Engineer with strong expertise in automation to design, evaluate, and implement scalable automation solutions across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Creating, reviewing, and validating Process Design Documents (PDDs) to ensure they are complete, technically accurate, and suitable for automation.
• Assessing processes for automation feasibility, identifying gaps, edge cases, exception scenarios, and system dependencies.
• Guiding teams in developing high-quality, automation-ready PDDs.
• Translating process requirements into technical workflows, building and deploying automations, and integrating APIs and external systems.
• Ensuring solutions are reliable, maintainable, and production-ready.
• Defining and enforcing best practices for automation design and documentation.

Tools & Technologies

• Hands-on experience with enterprise automation platforms such as UiPath, Blue Prism (BP), Quick Automate, or similar workflow automation tools.
• Designing workflows, managing orchestration, implementing exception handling, and deploying and monitoring automations in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python for developing custom automation scripts, integrating with REST APIs, processing and transforming data, and extending automation capabilities.
• Experience using Python libraries such as requests or httpx for API integrations, pandas for data handling, and logging frameworks.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, Git for version control, Postman for API testing, and basic SQL for data validation and testing.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or MS degree.
• 2+ years of building production software experience.
• 2+ years of professional front end development experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis and functional roles, including requirements gathering, and creating/deploying solutions to end users.
• Experience automating a complex process.
• UiPath Certified Professional Developer certification.

Our Inclusive Culture

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Key skills/competency

• Automation
• Application Engineer
• Python
• REST APIs
• UiPath
• Process Design Documents (PDDs)
• Workflow Automation
• API Integration
• Software Development
• Enterprise Systems