Job Information
Job Taxonomy: Senior Software Engineer - 03460
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Job Description: The Senior Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers
Responsibilities
- Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
- Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
- Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
- Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
- Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
- Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible
- Participates in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers
- Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
- Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management
- Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades
Skills/Experience
- 4+ w/Bachelors degree
- Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products
- BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
- MS is a plus.
- Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform
YOU HAVE:
- Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
- Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
- Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
- Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
- Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
- Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies
- Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
- Life-long learner, process improver
- Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Pega Applications, Healthcare and/or Customer Service capability experience is a plus
- Experience with developing and deploying Pega applications on Azure or similar cloud platform
- Experience integrating legacy systems with the Pega Platform
- Experience with Root Cause Analysis in the Pega ecosystem to quickly address and fix system issues
- Ability to integrate with external systems of record with the Pega Platform
- Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow
Required Skills
- Java (8/11/17+): Expert-level proficiency with object-oriented design, functional programming concepts, and performance optimization.
- Spring Framework / Spring Boot: Deep experience developing microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Spring Data.
- Microservices Architecture: Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems using microservice patterns.
- API Design & Integration: Skilled in developing RESTful APIs with proper documentation using OpenAPI/Swagger; experience integrating with internal and external services.
- Build & Dependency Management: Strong experience using Maven for dependency management, build lifecycle configuration, and plugin customization.
- Data Management: Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and transaction management.
Desired Skills
- Microsoft Azure: Hands-on experience with Azure services such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Cosmos DB
- Containerization & Orchestration: Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (AKS); experience with Helm charts, deployments, and scaling strategies.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Monitoring & Logging: Experience with centralized logging (Datadog)
Notes:
- Candidates need to have the following: 1. Expert experience with Java. 2. Strong experience building microservices with Springboot. 3. Hands on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Nice to have: 1. Experience with Azure, specifically AKS. 2. Experience with Github Actions.
- This person will only be working on the backend of the application and will be responsible for developing and deploying microservices all the way to production. He/She will also be providing production support for all microservices.
- Interview Process: 1. Technical coding interview with one of the tech leads. 2. One more technical interview with a team member. 3. In person interview with hiring manager at Alpharetta location.
- *Candidates are expected to have cameras on and screen share for virtual technical interviews*
- Candidates need to reside locally to the Alpharetta office to go into office three times a week if selected.
- Please focus on candidates that do not require sponsorship.
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