Software Engineer

Description

Summary The Connected Vehicle Services division of our client builds and delivers softwarebased services on our connected car platform. The software we develop not only adds convenience to the daily life of our subscribers, but safety and security as well; when the worst happens, our software helps to save lives.
Working on our team will give you the opportunity to craft software in an agile, teamfocused environment while learning and exercising a multitude of skills. We focus on keeping developers happy and productive; fostering a positive atmosphere to help you make the right decisions and to learn and grow both professionally and personally.
We are looking for a motivated and passionate software craftsperson to help us create, extend, and maintain the core of our connected car software platform as we expand past our current offerings in services related to safety, security and convenience in order to take our business to the next level.
Duties and Responsibilities Adhere to rules established to enforce testdriven/behaviordrive development, maintaining wiki pages, code style, and code group/peer review.
Be a team player, someone who can communicate both orally and through our various written communication mechanisms.
Be able to work under the supervision of a more senior engineer, completing tasks with the expected degree of quality in a timely fashion.
Analyze requirements and technical specifications, and implement assigned development tasks using various web technologies.
Develop, maintain, and debug cloud based microservice APIs
Maintain and extend existing onpremise software systems
Be able to dig in and troubleshoot pre and post production issues.
Supervisory Responsibilities None
Minimum Qualifications BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other technically related field
Equivalent experience and/or degrees in other technical fields will be evaluated and considered
5+ years of experience in a development position
Strong technical knowledge building mission critical/highly available serviceoriented software
Requirements and General Skills Works well with others and is a skilled communicator both written and oral; acts with professionalism both in person and when working on the phone with partners.
Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and work under shifting deadlines with potentially ambiguous or nebulous requirements in a fastpaced environment
Excellent problemsolving skills
Experience working in an agile software development organization; Scrum and/or Kanban
Willingness to learn new technologies often very quickly
Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
Technical Skills Strong technical knowledge building mission critical/highly available service using current generation toolkits such as Spring, Dropwizard, RESTEasy, or Node.JS
Developing and designing web services through APIs using REST, HTTP, JSON/JSONP, etc
Fluency in Java 7, basic understanding of Java 8
Strong technical knowledge of IP, HTTP, JSON and XML. Solid experience with Python or Javascript/Node.js a plus
Strong understanding the principles of serviceoriented software and large scale distributed systems.
Working knowledge of reactive programing
Working knowledge of SQLbased or NoSQL databases using JDBC, JPA or similar frameworks
Basic technical knowledge of cloudbased systems covering infrastructure, platform and software as services
Recent handson experience with Java, Spring / Spring Boot Frameworks, Node.js development, MicroServices, Serverless (AWS Lambda etc)
Good working knowledge of the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Observability & Traceability
Code craftsmanship; rigor in high code quality, automated testing (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber), and agile engineering best practices
Knowledge of modern software patterns and antipatterns
Able to work within a Git/Gitflowbased multibranched software environment.
Preferred experience with Java development tooling Maven and/or Gradle.
Used continuous integration environments like TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson.