Software Engineer II

Summary Statement:

Working with a diverse team, you will lead the technical design of complex components that support our business critical applications, while mentoring other developers on best practices in an effort to deliver our next generation of innovative solutions to our customers

What You Will Be Doing:

As a Software Engineer II, you will be leading the effort to develop, enhance, and support applications in a fast-paced development environment; while working with senior members of the staff on medium to large sized projects in a diverse range of topics to produce deliverables. You will be maintaining and modernizing our existing systems as well as working on new applications. Working in our collaborative environment you will have the opportunity to further develop your skills while also acting as a mentor and guide a team of software engineers on development best practices and ensure code quality through code reviews.

Penske Responsibilities:

• Be the primary contact and lead support associate for one or more critical applications and processes, resolving customer issues in a timely manner.

• Play a critical role in supporting the application lifecycle (develop, test, release and support) based on detailed requirements and guidance from senior engineers/architects and management.

• Collaborate with technical/business leaders and product owners to acquire and understand requirements / acceptance criteria.

• Produce deliverables for medium to large sized projects with clean, well-documented and easily maintainable code that adheres to defined coding standards.

• Participate in Design and Deploy Tollgate reviews and gain buy in from cross-functional teams including QA, Architect, Security, Webmaster and Operations.

• Effectively document systems, software architecture and processes, including application documentation, dependency diagrams, etc.

• Write unit / UI tests to identify defects and leverage CI/CD for building and deploying code.

• Triage production issues and work with multiple teams to perform problem analysis                                            

• Lead the backend database design effort and where applicable collaborate with product owners and designers on UI/UX design.

• Assign projects and review deliverables from onshore and offshore software engineers.            

• Provide constructive input to department management regarding team members assigned to project    

• Participate in the hiring process to assist in assessing candidate technical skills and independently conduct new hire interviews.  

• Other projects as assigned