Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

The preference is for this person to live in/near/around Chicago, IL.

As a Full Stack Developer on the MIS team, you will be working in a highly collaborative environment developing web-based tools supporting financial applications that serve the Epsilon Account Management and Finance Teams. Your passion for writing well-structured and scalable code will help drive long-term product vision with key technology and architecture decisions. You will be surrounded by passionate, high-performing individuals collaborating to solve complex problems and making a meaningful impact on our business.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Main responsibility will be the development and maintenance of software components of varying complexity for use in finance and billing applications.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, business analysts and business users in conceptualizing, estimating, and developing new software applications and enhancements.
• Assist in the development, and documentation of software’s objectives, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with internal users and departments.
• Collaborate with QA to define test cases, metrics, and resolve questions about test results.
• Advise, and mentor team members in specialized technical areas, decision making and methodologies.
• Assisting in the definition, development, and documentation of software’s objectives, business requirements, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with internal users and departments.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or similar field), or equivalent experience, working experience in FinTech environments is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience in relevant technologies.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript packages, package managers, bundlers, and their use in building complex interactive experiences.
• Proficiency in building APIs.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) with demonstrated proficiency in querying and tuning for performance.
• Strong understanding of Python development and scripting - Flask, FastAPI a plus.
• Understanding of CI/CD processes/tools and experience with Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with Source Control Systems preferably GIT.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and logging.
• Experience with writing detailed technical specifications for developers; design, validate and execute software test plans.
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle, AGILE development methodologies, and able to independently participate in each phase.
• Ability to define and implement migration strategies from legacy systems to new architecture and technologies.
• Experience in performance tuning, application monitoring and support of production applications with distributed teams.
• Ability to work well within a team environment that includes geographically distributed team members.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) and an ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences.

The preference is for this person to live in/near/around Chicago, IL.

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