Job responsibilities
- Executing creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Developing secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifying opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leading evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leading communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies and working with & mentoring an AGILE team composed of 6-8 software engineers and guiding them towards success
- Developing & delivering quality applications on-time according to requirements & roadmap commitments as well as sharing & teaching excellent software engineering best practices & principles (data structures, multithreading and algorithms)
- Writing & reviewing high quality code that will serve as an example for other engineers and reviewing & sharing areas of technical improvement within existing applications
- Maintaining technical knowledge & operational support models by documenting our applications
- Creating & maintaining the use of unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing
- Understanding & adhering to AGILE ceremonies, aligning to the DoD, & Do, as well as SRE best practices, uplifting systems and processes
- Taking part in regular capacity & roadmap planning sessions based upon known velocity and engaging with Product Partners to clarify business requirements & achieving go-live Signoff as well as adhering to proper Change, Release, & Problem Management best practices
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Practical cloud native experience
- Minimum of 6 years of proven professional experience with Java/Spring Boot
- Advanced knowledge of & experience with event driven, microservice, REST/API, cloud based architectures
- Advanced knowledge of & experience with data structures, multithreading and algorithms
- Proficient with databases, either relational or NoSQL
- Proficient with standard application architectures, clean, & coding best practices
- Proficient with Kafka and/or other message based processing technologies
- Continuously automating the CI/CD pipeline and engaging in post deployment validation best practices
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with Cockroach databases
- Experience with AWS & Kubernetes Cloud Technologies
- Experience with high-volume multi-threaded processing environments