Software Developer

Software Development Engineer

As a Software Development Engineer at Client, you are expected to perform the following general duties:

• Own tasks (dev, test, deployment) at an application/software component level
• Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code
• Independently manage a support queue
• Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
• Proactively seek reviews of their work from experienced members
• Influence the decisions made by the team
• Assist peers and less experienced members

Professional Qualifications:

• Business operations: Exhibits general knowledge of Client business processes, systems, products, customers and how they impact own area of work.
• Market knowledge: Demonstrates basic understanding of own local market, payments industry and keeps self up-to-date on latest occurrences.
• Competitor knowledge: Displays awareness of traditional and emerging competitors and keeps abreast of their product offerings and developments.
• Growing and developing teams: Participates in activities which develop others and reinforces good team spirit while working with others.
• Inspiring and empowering others: Understands relationships within own work area and participates in teamwork and collaborative efforts.
• Coaching and feedback: Show awareness of own strengths and areas of improvement and seeks out additional feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Technical Qualifications:

• Programming: Has ability to write secure code in multiple languages (ideally JavaScript, SQL); familiar with secure coding standards (e.g. OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities
• Development Practices: Understands and implements standard branching (e.g. Gitflow) and peer review practices; Apply tools (e.g. Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity; understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage.
• Patterns and Frameworks: Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g. factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control); has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g. Angular, typescript, DXP, others)
• Planning: Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners to participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation
• Practices and Metrics: Understands Agile development processes (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for; familiar with SDLC stages starting from requirements gathering to production rollout and key decision gates in each stage; has skills to track work using Application Life Cycle management (ALM) tools (e.g. Jira, Rally).
• Engineering Principles: Understand the basic tenets of building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
• Patterns and Protocols: Understand different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g. APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data); understands secure network protocols to protect data in transit (e.g. IPSec, TLS, PGP, others)
• Automation: Displays basic understanding of Client systems architecture and automation technologies to support and implement software delivery and business process automation; has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient
• DevOps: Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization; Aware of configuration management using tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef) and CI/CD tools (e.g. Artifactory, Jenkins, Git, Sonar)
• Performance and Scalability: Understands performance engineering practices, including capacity drivers, traffic modeling, infrastructure utilization, horizontal scaling, elastic computing, and last mile performance for consumers
• Test Strategy: Follows Client testing standards via the Test Strategy; has skills to author test cases leveraging behavior driven development and customer journey concepts; understand organization of testing artifacts (e.g. test folders, sets, runs) in ALM tools and link them to automated testing code to report status of test runs
• Testing Types: Understand functional and non-functional testing types and elaborate and estimate test efforts; understand how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
• Platform as a Service (PAAS) /Function as a Service (FAAS): Understands general concepts around PAAS and FAAS, and building applications that can be hosted on any standardized on-prem/public or private cloud environments