Lead Software Engineer

Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: O'Fallon, Missouri (Main Campus)
Glider: Software Engineering Expert

Job Description:

• Develop applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Excellent communication skills with strong Agile knowledge.
• Be able to work with Business/Systems Analysts and Quality Engineers in a behavioural driven development environment.
• The Ideal candidate should have experience of developing Microservices in Cloud based environment.
• Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, develop, test, deploy, configure, document) to meet the business requirements
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within team when required
• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
• Drive adoption of technology standards and engineering principles
• Work with the application development and testing teams to assist with problem resolution and troubleshooting during Regression, UAT, and customer testing efforts.
• Partner with the group representative for the core releases and out of release projects by reviewing project requirements, application design documents, and announcements to understand potential impacts to the testing environments.

Requirements:

• Experience in working on large production systems with high transaction volumes.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to proactively work to prevent a problem.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Experience working with continuous integration tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Chef, Cruise Control etc.
• Experience working with code coverage and health reporting tools such as Sonar.
• Complete code reviews and mentor peers and more junior members of the team.

The ideal candidate would have the following skills:

• Advanced skills and knowledge of testing frameworks and techniques.
• Cloud Development Experience PCF, AWS, Azure.
• Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems.
• Experience with a variety of architectural patterns including high performance, high availability transaction processing systems and multi-tiered web applications.
• Self-motivated with the ability to accomplish tasks with minimal direction.
• Loves being in a collaborative, team environment.
• Ability to define and elaborate both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Possesses skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g. velocity, throughput, lead time, burndown).
• Ability to understand and breakdown requirements from a customer testing point of view to produce customer test cases.
• CI/CD setup to support test automation.
• Familiarity with secure coding standards and vulnerability management.
• Possesses skills in test-driven development to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality.
• Has familiarity with tools (e.g. Sonar, Checkmarx) to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns.
• Ability to develop and document test strategy following employer testing standards.
• Understands defect management processes to facilitate root cause analysis and learnings.
• Possesses skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines to enhance CICD using orchestration tools (e.g. Jenkins).
• Always look for potential solutions to solve problems.