Software Engineer

ob Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Cary NC Hybrid: 3 days onsite This role will follow hybrid work schedule Should be in the office every Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and as required by the manager

Duration: Long Term Contract

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Summary:

A Senior Software Engineer will develop maintain and support new or existing software products while evangelizing and applying the best practices of software development.

Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

Essential Functions:
Quality:

Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests

Minimize the number of production escapes

Support user acceptance testing

Support or conduct system testing performance volume and stress testing

Usability/User Experience:

Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces

Assist with mockups user interface design

Incorporate UX components into application

Provide feedback to UX team

Product Reliability & Response:

Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLAs

When primary oncall respond to pages within 15min and resolve or escalate issue as necessary

Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders

Development:

Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met

Conduct necessary analysis design and prepare technical documentation

Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story

Follow the Railinc development process and suggest improvements

Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications

Leadership (Technical):

Evangelize Railinc common practices and development procedures

Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain

Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality productivity and capabilities

Mentor peers and junior developers

Delegate and coordinate functional development tasks as needed

Drive innovation in the development release and operations processes

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load

Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff

Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.

Experience in defining requirements designing and illustrating process flows and training users.

Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization including documentation of application requirements

Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively

Ability to mentor others

7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.

Comfortable with frontend middle tier and backend technologies.

Expertise in frontend technologies like Angular Spring MVC or equivalent hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.

Expertise in Spring Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.

Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment hands on experience in building docker applications.

Web Service SOAP/REST expertise especially as a service provider.

MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 23 years is a plus. If the candidate is just familiar with MQ or has minimal experience needs to be really strong in specific frontend backend technologies of Struts/Spring/hibernate.

Expertise using Tomcat servers

Experience with Agile software development methodology

Expertise in using version control software like git etc.

Strong understanding of deployment processes deployment environments production application troubleshooting techniques etc. too.

Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3 CloudFront Lambda ELB SNS SQS and Route53 will be a plus

Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues will be a plus

Experience in using Aurora RDS for database will be a plus

Experience in using Amazon MQ for message broker service will be a plus

Education & Experience:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or

Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience

Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment.

AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus