Software Engineering Specialist

Job Description Summary
Responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining software applications & services. Working in the areas of machine, cloud, platform and/or application. Responsible for software lifecycle including activities such as requirement analysis, documentation/procedures and implementation.

Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

- Contribute, design, and development of RESTful APIs and microservices using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core (Web API, MVC), and Entity Framework

- Understanding of engineering best practices: SOLID principles, design patterns, code reviews, technical standards, and documentation

- Own end-to-end delivery: requirements, design, implementation, automated testing (unit, integration, UI), performance, and deployment

- Design for reliability, scalability, and security in AWS; containerize and ship services with Docker

- Work across data stores (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle), including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning

- Implement and improve observability (logging, monitoring, alerting) and drive operational excellence

- Integrate AI/ML capabilities where appropriate to enhance product features and developer productivity

- Ensure secure development practices including SAST/DAST and remediation of findings

- Mentor and coach engineers; lead technical initiatives and collaborate with product, UX, and stakeholders

Must-have qualifications:

- 2-5 years of relevant experience

- Deep C# &.NET expertise with ASP.NET Core (Web API, MVC) and Entity Framework

- Strong RESTful API and Microservices design and development

- Experience with modern front-end frameworks of ReactJS

- Solid grasp of SOLID principles, design patterns, and microservices architecture

- Strong SQL skills across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle

- Automation experience: unit, integration, and UI test frameworks

- Cloud experience with AWS/Azure

- Docker\Kubernetes experience for containerizing applications

- Proven ability to lead initiatives and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions

- DevOps/CI/CD tools: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, Groovy

Nice to have:

- Monitoring and logging tools: Splunk, Prometheus, ELK Stack

- Build front-end experiences using JavaScript/TypeScript with ReactJS

- Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript

- Load/performance testing (e.g., JMeter)

- Security best practices in SAST and DAST

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

- Experience working independently in fast-paced, cross-functional environments

- Practical AI skill set (e.g., integrating AI/ML capabilities into applications)

- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

- Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends

- Has the ability to analyse impact of technology choices

Leadership:

- Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members

- Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results

- Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct

- Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Effective team building and problem-solving abilities

- Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:
• Comfortable in building features such as web services and Queries on existing tables.
• Aware of methods and practices such as Lean/Agile/XP, etc.
• Prior work experience in an agile environment, or introductory training on Lean/Agile.
• Aware of and able to apply continuous integration (CI).
• General understanding of the impacts of technology choice to the software development life cycle.

Business Acumen:
• Has the ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks.
• Understands the technology landscape, up to date on current technology trends and new technology, brings new ideas to the team.
• Displays understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer. Shows commitment to deliver the best value proposition for the targeted customer.
• Learns organization vision statement and decision making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision

Personal/Leadership Attributes:
• Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence.
• Learns organization vision statement and decision making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision.
• Completes assigned tasks on time and with high quality. Takes independent responsibility for assigned deliverables.
• Has the ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks.
• Seeks to understand problems thoroughly before implementing solutions. Asks questions to clarify requirements when ambiguities are present.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation and offers new ideas. Takes the initiative to experiment with new software frameworks
• Adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached, responds to need & seeks info from other sources

Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No