Senior Software Developer

Job Description

Summary:

The Senior Software Developer is responsible for the detailed design, implementation, and testing of software solutions that enable business workflow excellence. This position is responsible for building a wide variety of software subsystems and components using the given requirements and constraints using Agile philosophy.

Essential Functions:

• Analyzes requirements and collaborates with the product owner, team members or architects
• Implements designs with little or no assistance required.
• Writes accurate production-quality code
• Builds and tests code to validate functionality against requirements and to ensure full unit test coverage.
• Participates in peer code reviews, both as a submitter and a reviewer.
• Thoroughly documents code and design.
• Accurately estimates and tracks personal work.
• Proactively raises issues and communicates accurate status to project managers.
• Works effectively in an iterative, incremental software development lifecycle wherein priorities, requirements and scope evolve, sometimes rapidly, over time and often mid-project.
• Assists in the development and presentation of manuals, user guides, and other materials relating to client products.
• May provide staff and clients with training and technical assistance relating to new, existing, and revised products.
• Responsible for conveying an understanding of technical product functionality to clients. Provides post-release support to internal and external customers.
• Helps identify improvements in the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrates self-development by staying current with new technology and design patterns.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Should have 3 – 5 years of developing software experience in a commercial software development environment; Minimum of 3 years leading a software development team of 3 or more people.
• Proven ability to design and develop large scale, complex applications
• Strong experience with Scrum methodology and Agile practices.
• Open Source technologies
• Building web services and RESTful services.
• Version Control, Build & Release Management tools using Open Source tools.
• Relational and non-relational databases
• Building world-class web applications using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js)
• Prior experience in product development background preferred.
• Deep knowledge and experience in practices like TDD, CI and CD.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• An understanding of DevOps methodologies.
• Strong leadership, time management, problem solving skills and resource administration.
• Knowledge of various design patterns.
• Extremely proficient and passionate about following Agile Engineering practices (e.g. XP/FDD/DDD)
• Ability to work in an environment with high degree of ambiguity (previous start-up like experience could be helpful)
• Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership.
• Passionate, Self-motivated and driven, with keen attention to detail, action-and-results oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills as well as strong logical, analytical, problem solving skills and reporting skills.
• Able to present ideas in user-friendly language.

Additional Information

Environment, Physical Demands and Other Conditions:

• Experience with in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to work after hours