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Role & responsibilities Sphere of Influence: Courseware/EdgeEX in Education Technology. Embrace collaborative team culture founded upon these core values: Aligned, Accountable (Extreme Ownership), Adaptable, Highly Communicative, Committed to Excellence, Disciplined, Trusting, & Exhibiting No Fear. Embrace no domain or technology specialization. You are a problem solver. Responsible for Software Engineering implementation execution as a senior member on one team. Participate in all aspects of Engineering, including but not limited to qualifying product requirements, qualifying/understanding solution architecture, mentoring team on best software engineering practices with an emphasis on Kotlin, actively engaging in a high-functioning predictable team that continually ships quality code, etc. Work with the peer group to understand and communicate to the team the relevant standards for solution design, code, quality and dev tools. Learn the entire technology stack to become a Full-Stack Software Engineer over time. Collaborate with teams to support in-flight strategies and other roadmaps as required, such as Security, Cloud, Data, etc. Partner within the team to drive higher engineering maturity towards elevating DORA metrics that result in delivery predictability and quality. Partner with DevOps to articulate CI/CD requirements and own the team deployment process. Drive increased velocity of quality feature delivery through simplification and automation. Assist with transition to the new cloud environment via necessary architecture and platform changes. Mentor the engineering team with a focus on Kotlin. Write software solutions, automation tests, deployment configurations, and deliver them to production within CI/CD framework. Preferred candidate profile Bachelors degree and a minimum of 8 years of related experience Experienced / Mastery with Kotlin programming language Experience with Micronaut or Spring boot Proficient with Application monitoring, logging, tracing and instrumentation tools such as New Relic, Kibana, and Grafana Relational database schema design and SQL query experience, Postgres preferred NoSQL experience, DynamoDB preferred Experienced in Javascript/Typescript and frameworks, React preferred Experience with Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Prefer experience in AWS, Lambda, S3, SQS (or similar), Docker, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes Prefer experience with feature flagging (Flagr or similar) Prefer experience with Build systems and CI/CD (Concourse, Spinnaker, or similar) Prefer experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, debugging, and general problem-solving skills Excellent communication and collaboration skills Self-motivated and self-managing, able to proactively identify work, handle tasks, and complete work without supervision Driven, enthusiastic, self-starter, committed to improving the code and the product. Proactively refactors code beyond assignments, suggests process, feature, and UX enhancements
