Software Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications, and test and build automation tools


• Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned applications


• Perform hands-on software development, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints


• Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components


• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains


• Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets


• Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges


• Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design


• Mentor other engineers

Purpose:

Minimum Qualifications

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

• Understand the business needs and design high quality software applications in timely manner to fulfill those needs


• Identify and adopt new technologies to solve existing business needs and predict future challenges. 

Leadership Outcomes:

• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders


• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings


• Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity


• Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day 

Past Experience :

• 3+ Yrs of past experience across
• Design and development using Java, J2EE, APIs
• Continuous integration/deployment in an Agile Framework covering the aspect of design development and testing (SDLC)
• Multi-threading programming, Data structures, & web services technology
• DevOps and test driven development

Academic Background:

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or CSE or Equivalent 

Skills/Capabilities:

Functional:

• Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills


• Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges


• Porting/Software Configuration


• Agile Methodologies


• Software development/ testing


• Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform


• Designing High Availability applications

Preferred:

• Product Engineering Knowledge 


• Knowledge of outbound communication technologies 


• Platform engineering knowledge (e.g Credit/Payments/Merchant services/Ecommerce platforms)

Technical/Platforms:

• Java 8 & above, J2EE, REST APIs


• Node, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Relation DBMSs –DB2, NoSql – Couchbase, S3


• AngularJS, React and Node.js


• Microservices design patterns


• Event driven programming paradigm using kakfa, solace, MQs clusters. 


• Source control (Git, Bitbucket etc). Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Maven, XLR, Mockito, JMeter)


• Knowledge of VSS, IaaS, PaaS. Container Concepts (LXD, Docker). Orchestration Concepts (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)


• Knowledge of microdose, vertx, typescript will be an additional advantage.

Behavioral:

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors:

• Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective


• Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential


• Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage