Sr Software Engineer

Position Summary 

An Effectual Software Engineer designs, develops, and deploys cloud-based applications for our clients. You will collaborate with teams, including architects and project managers, to ensure the delivery of high-quality cloud solutions. They report to the Sr. Director of Application Mondernization Practice. 

A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Software Engineer 

A Senior Software Engineer will spend the bulk of their time collaborating with their assigned project team. Most projects at Effectual follow a 2-week sprint cadence. Throughout the duration of a sprint, a Senior Software Engineer will participate in daily stand-ups where they communicate progress made since the last check in, re-evaluate any estimates, agree on priorities for the day, and voice any blockers that the team needs to be made aware of. A Senior Software Engineer will work through their assigned tasks in priority order, assist the team with any issues that arise through Slack or ad-hoc meetings, perform peer code reviews, and support the grooming and estimation of tasks in preparation for future sprints. At the completion of a sprint, a Senior Software Engineer will demo their work to the team members. 

Responsibilities 

• Provide technical support and innovative cloud solutions in alignment with business objectives, by designing, architecting, maintaining, and operationalizing cloud-based .NET applications and systems on the AWS Cloud. 

• Design, implementing, integrating, maintaining, optimizing, and administering cloud solutions, infrastructures, and platforms. 

• Evaluate, test, design, develop, and integrate new cloud technologies and processes to support existing infrastructure and modernization efforts and provides recommendations for future technologies and growth 

• Support and maintain existing software functionality; to investigate, analyze and correct identified defects 

• Improve the maintainability and performance of existing software through application refactoring 

• Independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of medium and large features from design through deployment. 

• Perform pull requests / merge requests, branch management, and build and deployments 

• Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple stacks 

• May serve as a technical lead on projects 

• Review technical design documentation and participates in technical reviews 

• Create proper documentation for software being built 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, IS, or related field 

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering 

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 

Skills Required 

• .Net experience you can design and architect complex enterprise-level applications that involve multiple layers and services. 

• Cloud architecture, cloud-native design, cloud computing, storage and database 

• Grasp of information security best practices 

• Command of one IaC platform 

• Design, Coding, Debugging and Testing Software 

• Familiarity with at least one SQL or NoSQL database platform 

• Requirements Analysis 

• Systems Design 

• Understanding of at least one SDLC model and all phases 

• Understand Application Lifecycle Management 

• Solid command of at least one programming language 

• Understanding of data structures and algorithms