SR. Software Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Develops and debugs software in support of new and existing applications 
• Develop, execute and thoroughly document unit and system-level test plans
• Designs changes to new and existing applications
• Provides support for production applications (7x24)
• Participate in Agile methodology and ceremonies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): What KSAs are required to perform this job?

• Must be a self-starter, adapt easily to change and promote a collaborative team environment.
• Continuous learner able to identify skill gaps and acquire and employ new knowledge.
• Mentor junior team members and seek guidance from senior team members.
• Understands business concepts and user procedures.
• Effective communicator with technical and business team members.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve current applications’ functionality and performance.
• Participates in code reviews and scope of work estimation and forecasting.
• Writes high-quality code that meets the customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity and testability.
• Able to provide application support, analyze problems and provide solutions for complex issues.
• Able to develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery.
• Employs test-driven development and integrates unit tests in development tasks.
• Strong ability to relate code modules to the application as a whole and the underlying business objectives.
• Able to stay current on technology changes applicable to your domain and how to apply them.
• Strong analytical skills with experience gathering requirements and designing new functionality.
• Lead intra-domain initiatives composed of distributed teams and remote team members and customers.

Work Experience and/or Education:

• 5+ years experience in software development in an IT organization or equivalent educational experience.
• 4+ years experience in both API and UI development using Java
• 3+ years experience delivering software supporting Transportation-related applications
• 3+ years experience with a relational database (i.e., Oracle, MSSQL, Postgres, etc.).
• 1+ years of experience with No-SQL Databases (i.e Cassandra, Mongo DB etc)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, trade school or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with a higher-level language (i.e. C#, Java, Python etc.)
• Firm understanding of Cloud and distributed systems challenges
• Working with stateful and/or stateless containers and orchestration via Kubernetes or equivalent
• Experience with distributed messaging systems like Kafka