Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Job Description Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and program a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area. You will work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across business. You will Lead design discussion in a limited manner.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts

• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.

• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding

• Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal

• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation

• Seek and provide feedback on design and development

• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment

• Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module

• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules

• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.

• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs

• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure

• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice

• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision

• Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

Education Qualification and Technical Expertise:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with a minimum of 6 years’ experience in software development.

• Hands-on experience in software development related to Core Java with knowledge of data structures, multithreading, concurrency, collections, OOAD, design patterns, SOA

• Knowledge on JVM performance tuning and memory management.

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns

• Experience with micro-services development

• Experience in building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructures. Exposure to BDD/ TDD practices.

• Experience working within Agile/Scrum software development framework

• Strong Debugging and Troubleshooting Expertise.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments

• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks

Desired (Good to Have) Skills:

• Experience inContinuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), experience with Jenkins, GIT

• Working experience on HL7 implementation

• Good knowledge or experience in containerization platforms like Docker & Kubernetes

• Web Services, hibernate, Spring framework.

Leadership:

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions

• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team

• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work under minimal supervision

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes