Software Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Software Engineer in Westlake, TX. Key Tasks:

• Champion the effort to create and maintain high quality service documentation
• Write concise and clear technical specifications based on analysis of complex business requirements
• Coordinate multiple development work streams through integration and ensure architecture is scalable and extensible
• Define, maintain and support development environment while adopting industry best practices and tools
• Ensures code reviews, unit testing and integration testing is completed efficiently and effectively
• Help coordinate the delivery of technical components across internal/external technical teams
• Work closely with business partners and management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development
• Provide technical leadership to more junior team members of the team
• 5-8 years of hands-on software development and Oracle experience
• 6+ years of Java EE development experience
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts
• Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment while meeting deliverables
• Curiosity to stay abreast with new and emerging technologies and concepts and to find ways to apply those to business problems
• Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM, Extreme Programming, TDD, etc.
• Strong verbal and written communications, must be able to actively engage other team members
• Expert-level knowledge of writing complex SQL queries using Oracle
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Oracle PL/SQL (Stored Procedures, Functions, packages, triggers)
• Experience with performance tuning queries and stored procedures to handle large volumes of data
• Working experience using GitHUB for Source Code Management (SCM) in a Data Engineering Practice
• Investment/financial services experience is highly desired preferably within the equity compensation space

• DevOps concepts governing SCM, continuous integration, monitoring, and deployment processes
• Docker containerization and AWS cloud deployment and application management via the AWS console
• Understanding of and experience with Microservices Architecture concepts and emerging patterns such as APIs, JAX-RS, REST/JSON
• Application development using Java EE, Spring framework
• Relational databases like DB2 or Oracle as well as no-SQL databases
• Familiarity with infrastructure technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, MSSQL, DataDog)
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, UDeploy), containerization (Docker), and version control (GIT, GitHub, gitflow)
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS or Azure (preferred)
• Client-side unit testing frameworks and test runners