Senior Software Engineer

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities of this position consists of, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems

• Design solutions that align to the long-term plan for a service or product based on deep expertise and customer insights

• Define interfaces and develop code for modules across products or services and influence or drive architectural changes

• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure; draw from a large base of design patterns, is an expert in available technologies, and is adept at identifying practices that work well

• Identify code across multiple code bases to optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment

• Lead code reviews across the product or service, understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them

• Proactively identify performance and availability issues, troubleshoot, provide effective options, and resolve issues in production that could span multiple product areas

• Develop and maintain thorough architectural documentation for the product or service

• Design products or services by using secure programming patterns and finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications; ensure secure best practices are part of design and implementation of new features and applications

• Estimate for projects that span multiple product areas including work, time, resources and skill needs

• Proactively identify technologies or solutions that differ from current technology stack or represent innovative uses of existing technologies

• Construct and deliver proposed solution strategies for potential new technologies and work with architecture to review and approve proposals

• Mentor and coach other software engineers, and proactively seek mentorship from others

• Lead the effort in defining the engineering lifecycle and practices for team and associated teams in partnership with the principal software engineer

• Drive collaboration across multiple teams; find ways accomplish more by enabling others

• Anticipate business needs and present options to leadership and business stakeholders with product managers

• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED

• Minimum 6 years of experience developing and implementing commercial software across several platforms while leveraging a variety of programming languages  

• Experience in owning and delivering projects and results of increasing technical complexity

• Experience with modern development languages (ex. .Net CORE, C#, Java)

• Experience with thin-client development (ex. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks)

• Experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL, Oracle) including schema design, stored procedure development and performance and optimization techniques

• Experience with non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB, Elastic, Cosmos)

• Experience with HTTP and REST architecture

• Experience with unit, integration, and acceptance testing

• Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GITHub, TFS, etc.)

• Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices

• Experience building cloud native applications and services (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP)

Preferred:

• Experience working on large-scale open source or inner source software development

• Experience in system integration projects or global projects

• Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (Kafka, ESB)

• Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus

• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams

• Able to learn and understand the various technical domains across the enterprise and able to communicate complex technical and business concepts across the enterprise and various business stakeholders

• Experience directly or indirectly leading high performing teams with the ability to assess and grow software engineering talent

• Proven track record of effe