Software Development Engineer II

Job Description

Job Summary Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. Responsible for the entire development and support process for a software programme. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time; effort or money to re-defining normal In this job; I Take a problem where technical strategy or approach is defined and come up with the solution design and drives the implementation with a fair level of autonomy including interacting with other SDEs in the same team or peer teams Reach out for direction proactively in case of ambiguities or constraints Own the delivery of a major component in a product or a small product entirely as part of a feature delivery Suggest improvements to processes and methodologies to enhance delivery speed; quality Mentor and guide other WL1 SDEs in the team and help in hiring Question requirements and challenge where necessary Identify value of tasks & always work on the highest priority items Programming o Demonstrate a good understanding of at least one major programming language o Understand the framework and enough of the tool ecosystem of the chosen language to implement end to end components with minimal assistance o Comfortably produce and refactor code without assistance o Test drive features in programming language of choice o Understand different major language paradigms (OOP/Functional) o Understand presence of abstraction beneath language (DVM/JVM/CLR) o Reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space) and code (cyclomatic) o Debug code o Understand and resolve complex issues Design o Identify design patterns in code o Implement design patterns with guidance o Comfortably translate small behaviour requirements into tasks & code o Understand how high-quality code can lead to rapid delivery o Write clean; maintainable code o Demonstrate a basic understanding of domains and domain modelling o Seek out and use appropriate abstractions o Understand patterns for integration (events/services) o Understand how to leverage existing functionality outside immediate project o Understand scope of project and when to move behaviour to other services Development Practice o Understand continuous integration and continuous delivery o Demonstrate a working knowledge of CI tooling o Writes tests to ensure CI/CD processes work o Understand BDD / TDD / Performance / Security / Smoke testing Infrastructure o Demonstrate a good working knowledge of one relevant operating system o Script and automate within relevant environment Security o Understand Oauth/Saml & identity models