Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member
• Design and develop software and improve existing code to make it more efficient to detect bugs in the code
• Develop product features across the full technology stack, including web services (Java) and both web and mobile user experiences
• Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria
• Author, apply and advocate for team coding, documenting and testing standards
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications
• Learn the business process domain to better support the business
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Lead code reviews and communicate application changes
• Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain and support
• Debug the problems which arise in production and propose effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications
• Read, write and review design documents
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices
• Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
• Participate in the talent selection process
• Guide and review the code, designs and documentation of less experienced software engineers

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.
• Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.
• One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.
• Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience
• Strong understanding and use of one or more object-oriented programming languages and design patterns
• Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall
• Practical experience in data modeling, design and messaging
• Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Preferred:

• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent
• Advanced understanding of IDEs, have the ability to navigate through them quickly and leverage advanced features to improve your performance
• In-depth usage and creation of application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their particular field: JSON, Rest/SOAP based Web Services, JUnit, Jenkins and Bitbucket preferred
• Experience in API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request and response modifications
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger or similar tools desirable
• Ability to use DDL to create database objects and relationships, construct advanced queries, and optimize query performance
• Financial services industry or startup experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to challenge the status quo and influence stakeholders to create innovative solutions
• Be collaborative with other team members, seeking a diversity of thought to meet business outcomes
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership

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Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work 

Our Company Values:

To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:

• Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
• Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
• Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
• Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
• Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting

Expectations:

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department

Advice!

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