Software Engineer II

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, and investigating problem areas.
• Follow the software development lifecycle; document and demonstrate solutions.
• Develop flow charts, layouts, and documentation.
• Determine feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Understand business needs and create tools to manage them.
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Recommend state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment.
• Participate in educational opportunities, read professional publications, maintain personal networks, and participate in professional organizations.
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and issues while protecting IT assets by keeping information confidential.
• Improve applications by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Define applications and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to applications, understand solution deployment, and communicate requirements for interactions with solution context.
• Define Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs).
• Understand multiple architectures and how to apply architecture to solutions.
• Provide oversight and foster Built-In Quality and Team and Technical Agility.
• Adopt new mindsets and habits in how people approach their work while supporting decentralized decision-making.
• Maintain strong relationships to deliver business value using relevant Business Relationship Management practices.

Knowledge/Skills:

1. Development & Coding:
   • Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using modern front-end and back-end technologies.
   • Write clean, efficient, and reusable code for both front-end and back-end components.
   • Integrate APIs and third-party services into the web applications.
   • Develop and manage NoSQL database schemas, and optimize queries for performance and scalability.
2. Collaborative Problem-Solving:
   • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to create functional, user-friendly, and visually appealing web applications.
   • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, security, and maintainability.
   • Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize applications for better performance and user experience.
3. Technical Leadership & Mentorship:
   • Provide guidance and support to junior developers and help them grow technically.
   • Continuously stay updated with new technologies, tools, and best practices to contribute innovative ideas to the team.
4. Front-End Development:
   • Build responsive and adaptive user interfaces using modern front-end frameworks and libraries (e. g. , React, Angular, Vue. js).
   • Implement best practices for UI/UX design and ensure the application is mobile-friendly.
5. Back-End Development:
   • Develop RESTful APIs, microservices, and server-side logic using backend technologies (e. g. , Node. js, Python, Java, Typescript).
   • Ensure security, data protection, and compliance with industry standards.
6. Database & Storage:
   • Design, implement, and manage relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Neo4J, CosmosDB, etc.
   • Perform database optimizations for faster query processing and better performance.
7. Version Control & Deployment:
   • Use version control systems (e. g. , Git) to manage and document changes to the codebase.
   • Participate in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, ensuring the software is regularly deployed to production.
8. Testing & Debugging:
   • Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for applications to ensure robustness and reliability.
   • Conduct thorough testing and debugging to ensure a smooth user experience.
9. Documentation:
   • Document technical specifications, API endpoints, and any relevant development processes.
   • Maintain clear and concise documentation for code, database schemas, and deployment procedures.

Technical Skill Set:

1. Front-End Technologies:
   • Strong experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
   • Proficiency in front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue. js.
   • Knowledge of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
   • Familiarity with front-end build tools (Webpack, Gulp, etc. ).
2. Back-End Technologies:
   • Proficient in one or more back-end programming languages such as Node. js, Python, or Java.
   • Experience with server-side frameworks (Express. js, Django, Spring, GraphQL, etc. ).
   • Strong knowledge of RESTful API and GraphQL design and development.
   • Strong experience in Azure Cloud web services.
   • Experience in Kubernetes development and deployment.
3. Databases:
   • Proficiency in relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc. ).
   • Knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Neo4J, CosmosDB, Redis, etc. ).
   • Strong SQL skills and ability to write optimized queries.
4. Version Control:
   • Experience with Git for version control, including branching, merging, and pull requests.
   • Familiarity with Git workflows such as GitFlow or trunk-based development.
5. Deployment & DevOps:
   • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
   • Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
   • Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for hosting and deploying applications.
6. Testing & Debugging:
   • Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools like Jest, Mocha, or Jasmine.
   • Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and writing unit and integration tests.
   • Familiarity with debugging tools and strategies.
7. Agile Methodology:
   • Experience working in Agile development environments, participating in Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, etc. ).
   • Familiarity with project management tools like Jira, Trello, or Asana.
8. Additional Skills:
   • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think critically.
   • Good understanding of web security best practices (e. g. , OWASP Top 10).
   • Ability to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
   • Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
   • Familiarity with additional technologies or frameworks like React, Vue. js, Svelte, etc.

Experience:

• 8-10 years of hands-on experience as a full-stack developer.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Fundamental IT technical skill sets.
• Experience taking a system from coping requirements through actual launch.
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates, and meet production deadlines.
• Professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Competencies:

• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization s goals.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Manages Conflict: Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
• Agile Architecture: Designs the fundamental organization of a system embodied by its components, their relationships to each other, and to the environment to guide its emergent design and evolution.
• Agile Development: Uses API-First Development where requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s) to construct high-quality, well-designed technical solutions.
• Agile Systems Thinking: Embraces a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a systems constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems.
• Agile Testing: Leads a cross-functional agile team with special expertise contributed by testers working at a sustainable pace, delivering business value desired by the customer at frequent intervals.
• Regulatory Risk Compliance Management: Evaluates the design and effectiveness of controls against established industry frameworks and regulations.
• Solution Functional Fit Analysis: Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts to study how well the component parts were designed, purchased, and configured to interact holistically.
• Solution Modeling: Creates, designs, and formulates models, diagrams, and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation.
• Values Differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.