As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate in Agile teams, develop cloud-native applications, mentor others, and establish software best practices.
Senior Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Be part of a scrum team in an Agile development environment.
- Work with little or no supervision on analysis and development tasks.
- Responsible for owning the design specifications and associated code for complete software components.
- Collaborate within and across groups in discussing solutions, solicit feedback and writing user interface specifications.
- Identify and suggest solutions to problems of significant scope.
- Provide thought and technology leadership and work closely with other engineers and architects to help develop quality products, testable designs, and test tools.
- Is looked upon to offer direction, guidance and mentoring to lesser skilled individuals on the team.
- Anticipates and identifies problems then provides alternative solutions to successful end result.
- Author best software development practices as well as come up with standards specific to the team.
- Learn technology trends across the industry and analyze how they can be adopted by the team.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent combination of Training & 5+ years of experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with programming languages - Java, Groovy, and SQL.
- 2+ years of experience in building cloud native applications in either AWS or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with developing highly available, mission critical back-end services at significant scale.
- Experience with test frameworks: Junit, TestNG, Gatling, SPOCK.
- Proficient with traditional relational databases and NoSQL databases.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven hands-on experience with design, coding standards, code reviews, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operations.
- Experience with OAuth, OpenID, SAML and JSON Web Tokens.
- Experience with AWS services: Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis Data Streams.
- Experience with building GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB.
- Good knowledge in areas: Generative AI, Event Driven Architecture, Data Streaming.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
- Solid understanding of DevOps best practices.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
- Excellent troubleshooting skill to root cause complex issues.
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Top Skills
AWS
Azure
DynamoDB
Gatling
GraphQL
Groovy
Java
Json Web Tokens
Junit
Oauth
Openid
Postgres
SAML
Spock
SQL
Testng
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