Senior Software Development Engineer

Summary:

Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Most companies should be able to match to a specific software development engineer position. Use this position if company does not breakout software development positions such as Software Engineer (Applications) (5141-5146) or Software Engineer (Systems) (5161-5166).

Duties & Responsibilities:

Basic Qualifications: 

· BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field

· Excellent English-language written and verbal communication skills

· 5 or more years of software development experience, using an Agile methodology (e.g., SCRUM or Kanban), including design, development, and testing activities.

· Experience in developing complex commercial software products 

· 5 or more years of software development using Java

· Experience developing applications using a containerized Microservices architecture

· Experience with Java microservice frameworks such as Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, Javalin

· Experience with designing, developing and using RESTful APIs supporting JSON or XML

· Experience developing automated unit tests

· Experience of working in a CI/CD software development pipeline

· Experience with version control systems (Bitbucket/Git preferred)

· Apache Maven / Gradle

· Experience working in a Linux environment (RHEL or Oracle Linux preferred)

· Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)

Preferred Qualifications: Experience with some or all of the following:

· Swagger API framework

· Kubernetes and Docker

· Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK stack)

· Monitoring system performance with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana

· Apache Spark

· Cucumber automated tests

· JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA or other JetBrains tools

· Atlassian tool suite, including JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git, Bamboo

· Behaviour-driven or test-driven development

· Deployment of applications in a cloud-hosted environment

· Python programming

Duties/Responsibilities: 

· Work effectively and efficiently with others on the R&D team to develop a winning product roadmap

· Continue to expand, focus and leverage personal and team knowledge base and technical abilities in constant pursuit of developing a superior product

· Follow the Agile Product Development model to constantly optimize feature, time to market and project budget while maintaining an uncompromising high level of product quality

· Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)

· Use Behaviour Driven Development or Test-Driven Development to deliver well-designed, tested code

· Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements

· Develop automated software unit tests and integration tests

· Integrate software components into a fully functional software system

· Troubleshoot and debug existing systems

· Provide recommendations for continuous improvement

· Be an effective, contributing team member, improving technologies, and consistently applying best practices

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements: