Sr. Software Engineer

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

This position is responsible for enhancing and maintaining existing software products as well as developing new products. The ideal candidate has a strong desire for excellence, regularly takes initiative, works with minimal supervision, confidence in their expertise, collaborative team player and is a creative problem solver.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems and/or applications for market sale or large-scale proprietary software for internal use

- Design and implement major new features and functionality

- Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation

- Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

- Work within R&D to improve processes and best practices

- Innovate process solutions

- Align best practices

- Monitor for and sometimes enforcement of standards

- Serve as technical expert on development projects

- Participate in full development life cycle including requirements analysis and design

- Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements

- Diagnose and fix complex product defects within a project or supporting customers

- Work with limited supervision on complex projects

- Latitude for independent judgment

- Assist and mentor less experienced team members

- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies

- Other duties as assigned

- Will be required to support an on-call rotation for emergencies.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Typically requires 10 or more years of experience.

- Proven previous experience at the Software Engineer III role

- Extensive knowledge of the field.

- A very good working knowledge of Agile Project development methodology and the ability to implement those methodologies in active projects.

- Proven experience and knowledge of the relevant programming language requirements for this role and the ability to share that knowledge with team members.

- Assist as a project leader or as a subject matter expert.

- Assist in coordinating project activities of co-located and remote team members.

- Very high level of communication skills (verbal and written)

- Presentation and mentoring skills

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.