Senior Software Engineer 5/29/2019
Category: Information Technology
Job Type: Direct hire
What You’ll Do:
- Architects, designs, and/or implements applications that conform to a business need. Maintains a business perspective in terms of understanding / affecting how systems are implemented to satisfy user goals
- Is responsible for the entire life cycle of a system or feature. An SSE reviews requirements, generates designs, provides rough order of magnitude estimates, implements, and performs unit testing
- Should feel that the quality of his/her work is a direct result of his/her own testing. An SSE should be able to handle assignments where no formal QA occurs. Systems developed should behave to a high standard of quality
- Proposes, develops, reviews, and revises new procedures as needed for the continuing development of high quality systems
- Works on multiple projects at one time, balancing needs and deadlines. An SSE is expected to progress on the project without much guidance from management. In addition, an SSE proposes new projects that will satisfy business needs
- Can troubleshoot problems of a complex nature. Shall support systems that he/she has not implemented
- Provides technical guidance and training to other team members
- Shares architecture formally and informally with the team and stakeholders
- Keeps informed of technical advances. Proposes changes based on newer technology
- May be asked to research or investigate business opportunities that have no clear direction
- May be involved in testing beyond unit testing (e.g. integration testing with a remote location, capacity testing)
What You Bring:
- Passion for developing and delivering great Windows applications
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Masters preferred
- Minimum 5 years of software development experience, 8 years preferred
- Clear understanding and mastery of traditional as well as new product development processes
- Proven ability to build clean, crisp, highly usable Windows applications
- Strong knowledge of troubleshooting and debugging applications on Windows
- Prior experience in other platforms (Mac, Linux) and other programming languages like Objective C or Java a plus
- .Net experience (VB and C#) for desktop (win forms specifically) and web service applications
- C++ experience, including STL
- COM experience
- Web Service exposure
- Some scripting exposure (Perl, PowerShell, Windows batch, Linux Bash shell scripting)
- Asynchronous application development exposure
- An understanding that this will be legacy code development
- Java / PHP / JavaScript exposure