Role: IT Software Engineer 5

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 months

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Job Description

Summary: The main function of a software engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work. A typical software engineer researches, designs, develops and tests software.

Job Responsibilities:

• Modify existing software written in Java, databases and database management systems.
• Create service software, unit and integration tests.
• Work as part of a project team to coordinate software development and determine project scope and limitations.
• Review project requests describing user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Basic mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.
• Knowledge of computer hardware and software.
• Knowledge of computer development

Typical task breakdown:

• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering business value 
• Mentors and assists software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Proactively reaches out for help when stuck on an issue after doing reasonable independent research
• Maintains a sense of urgency when working on tasks and actively followup on any dependencies or blockers

Technical Skills

(Required)

• 10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.
• Proven experience in many of the following:
• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
• Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
• Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc
• Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
• Experience with AI tools is a BIG PLUS**
• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:
• Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
• Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
• Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible o Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
• Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle. o Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc
• Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms