Senior Software Developer

Location: Austin, United States of America

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Position Summary

Austin, Hybrid

Thales is looking for a Senior Software Developer who will work on designing, documenting and implementing solutions for Thales customers. The candidate must have extensive knowledge of technologies related to standalone applications development. Experience in developing applications with Java, Eclipse RCP plugins, JFace/JavaFX is required.

Candidate must have experience in software architecture design, working knowledge and application of software design patterns and 
SOLID Object Oriented principles.

Candidate must also possess excellent communication skills that will help in the job of leading and facilitating discussions between stakeholders.

The Senior Software Developer is also performing peers code reviews and providing hands on guidance to the junior/intermediate members of the team.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Ensure producing a quality software components and applications in an agile software development process.

• Responsible for Writing the use cases (user stories), and allocate them to the functional components as necessary.

• Provide their technical expertise and support to other engineers and reporting to management. 

• Must be able to create proof-of-concepts as necessary to demonstrate new ideas/technologies and architectural concepts.

• Participate code reviews for compliance with the defined software architecture.

• Ensure the software implementation is in line with the proposed software architecture and recommended design patterns.

• Responsible for providing technical leadership to junior software engineers in the areas of software design and implementation.

• Comply with security guidelines and provide the required reporting to management.

Minimum Qualifications

• College degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Mathematics.

• Min 5 years of hands-on experience in development of complex UI applications with: ➢ Java and Eclipse RCP (JFace and JavaFX).

• Proficiency in Design Thinking, SOLID Object Oriented principles. 

• Broad Software Design Patterns understanding and use.

• Hands-on knowledge of the Scrum development process and Continuous Integration practices and tools (e.g. Jira, Mercurial, Git, Jenkins).

• Experience with Test Driven Development.

• Self-motivated, critical thinker, able to dig into the problems with little supervision.

• Able to attention to details while fixing bugs or implementing feature enhancements.

• Very good knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle: requirements analysis, design, implementation, code review, testing, and release.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands on experience with:

• Java and Eclipse RCP (JFace and JavaFX)

• Eclipse IDE (3 and 4)

The following are considered a plus:

• C++/STL (C++ 11 and up)

• GSM and LTE standards

• MVVM with Eclipse RCP

• C#, MVC.NET Core, Entity Framework (code-first) and LINQ

• JavaScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS

• JavaScript Fetch API and asynchronous development

• MS Visual Studio 2019 and above

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This position will require successfully completing a post-offer background check. Qualified candidates with [a] criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with federal law, state law, and local ordinances.

We are an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veteran status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characterist