Software Engineer II

Job Description

Agile Planning

• Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions.

• Recommends viable solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt.

• Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations.

• Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.

  Product Development

• Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems.

• Builds software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders.

• Understands technical architecture and writes software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards.

• Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary.

  Application Support

• Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.

  Advice and Guidance

• Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.

  Emerging Technology Monitoring

• Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new software technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.

• Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems

• Working experience realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation and support

• Working experience in coding within multiple technology stacks (e.g. Front-end: browser and device typically using common client-side technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript; Back-end: server, application, database using languages like PHP, Python, Ruby)

• Working experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative)

• Working experience in analysis, design and programming

• Working experience with appropriate database technology

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education

• Scrum Developer Certification or equivalent

• 2 5 years of working experience

  Specializations

  Native Mobile Key Responsibilities

• Develops mobile applications using native SDKs (e.g. iOS, Android).

• Write specifications and documentation for the consumption of API's.

  Essential Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications

• Working experience in iOS and/or Android mobile application development

• Working experience of iOS and/or Android APIs

• Working experience of Apple, Android, and Microsoft mobile development tools

• Understands methods of development for different form factors

  Performance The Performance Engineer is responsible for supporting applications from a performance perspective by providing diagnostic information on production (and test) performance results. The Performance Engineer plays a key role in automating processes to improve productivity in testing and engineering practices and creating and executing software performance testing strategies with focus on analysis and recommendations for a wide range of applications. Key Responsibilities:

• Responds to production performance issues and sees those performance issues through resolution.

• Performs deep performance related diagnostic troubleshooting / analysis.

• Makes performance recommendations to developers based on results and code identifications.

• Communicates performance analysis to stakeholders and suggests applicable changes.

• Identifies workflows and system characteristics to be performance tested and monitored.

• Defines performance benchmarks and SLA's.

• Writes, debugs and executes code used in performance/monitoring efforts.

• Analyzes test results to identify issues and works with architects and developers to suggest improvements and drive issues to resolution.

• Analyzes production monitoring metrics to trace back to test results and offer suggestions for areas performance improvements.

• Works with team to ensure quality and standardization of performance test plans, scripts, and results.

  Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications

• Working experience with performance and monitoring tools (e.g. Load Runner, Web Page Test, Jmeter

• Working experience of software development (e.g. Java, C++)

• Working experience in software performance engineering in a large-scale environment

• Working experience with performance tools (e.g. Web Page Test, Jmeter or Load Runner)

• Working experience with diagnostic tools such as Dynatrace, App Dynamics or Wily

• Working experience optimizing website performance with strong knowledge in networks, browsers, content delivery, etc.

• Working experience of TCP/IP, networking topology, routers, switches

• Working experience in identifying system bottlenecks, architectural risks, and issues

• Working experience supporting web-based applications built on UNIX/LINUX systems

• Working experience writing parameterized and data driven scripts

• Working experience with Keynote, Gomez or other monitoring tool

• Working experience in a variety of relational DBMS data structures including writing SQL statements to extract data from databases (Oracle preferred)

• Working experience with source code control systems

• Knowledge of functional automation testing and tools