Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems. This position involves leading agile teams or projects, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality code for complex scenarios with good test coverage.
• Review and translate product requirements into robust designs to ensure high-quality distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, reusable, fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable.
• Lead design and code reviews of multiple applications to ensure best practices, adherence to Mercury standards, and high quality.
• Lead the sprint team to deliver new or improved features, addressing any impediments to delivering high-quality solutions in the sprint backlog.
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of intended functionality.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within Mercury engineering.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related fields.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Preferred: Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
• Minimum: 5+ years software programming experience.
• 2+ years experience in Technologies used at Mercury.
• 1+ years experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Preferred: 5 or more years with Java programming language.
• 5 or more years of the Spring Framework, including Spring Boot for building microservices and REST APIs.
• Proficiency in designing, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB (NoSQL database) for storing and retrieving data.
• Ability to effectively utilize AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT with IDEs like IntelliJ, VS Code, etc.

Requirements

• Proficient in programming in one or more industry-standard languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript).
• Experienced in leveraging various data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Skilled in relational databases, NoSQL, and caching solutions.
• Experienced in APIs using modern protocols like REST and gRPC.
• Proficient in message queuing, data streaming, workflow, and integration frameworks (such as Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Amazon SQS, MS MQ, Apache Camel, etc.).
• Knowledgeable in microservices architecture.
• Experienced in containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in leveraging DevSecOps to improve engineering efficiency.
• Experienced in designing and implementing high-quality distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, and are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable.
• Skilled in leveraging analytics data and experimentation to design and improve systems for speed, scalability, and effectiveness.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication abilities.
• Strong ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders to address impediments and deliver desired results.
• Demonstrated leadership skills through mentoring and providing technical guidance to team members.
• Experienced in driving technical strategy and vision for a team.
• Preferred: Experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions.
• Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours).
• Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus).
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance.
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Engaging work environment.
• Promotional opportunities.
• Education assistance.
• Professional and personal development opportunities.
• Company recognition program.
• Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more.