Role and Responsibilities
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
- Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
- Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
- Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
- Protect operations by keeping information confidential
- Provide information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues
- Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
- Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities
- First and foremost, developing software our users need
- Mentor junior, mid and senior-level engineers
- Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
- Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting, and hiring
- Make informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale
- Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
- Be a persistent, creative problem solver
- Remain cool and effective in a crisis
- Stay on the leading edge of development practices
- Passionate about great technologies, especially open source, and the cloud
- Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Master's degree in the appropriate field of study preferred.
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong OOP and Functional Programming and modeling skills.(PHP, JavaScript, SQL, ..)
- Solid knowledge of Webservices
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Working Knowledge of APIs
- Experience building complex web systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
- Experience with mission-critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services
- Experience with 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
- Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
- Working with local and remote teams
Common IT Hardware, Software, Platform, and Systems Knowledge:
PHP, HTML, JavaScript, APIs, SOAP, XML, PERL, MySQL, UNIX, Linux, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS
Technical Skills & Proficiencies:
- Software Design and Analysis
- Software Documentation
- Software Testing
- Architecture
- Teamwork
- Programming Skills
- Software Development Fundamentals and Process
- Software Requirements
- Software Architecture
- Troubleshooting Expertise
- Multitasking
- Solid Communication Skills
- Results-Oriented
- High Energy
- Self-Motivated and Self-Directed
- Experience working in an Agile Environment
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