Application Engineer

Job TitleUnder general direction, devise and/or modify procedures to solve complex application problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results. This includes some coding/scripting, testing, debugging, documenting, and maintaining those programs. You will be competent to work at a high technical level of all phases of application engineering activities.Major Areas of AccountabilitySupport technical application deployments, enhancement, and integrationsProvide recommendations or develop solutions and implement accordinglyAnalyze and review existing or proposed system features and integration, security, scalability and performance requirements with clients, business analysts, and team membersPackage in house developed applications for production or integrate vendor supplied applicationsDevelop or modify software application design and specific modulesConduct testing of new or customized application modules to ensure application meets specifications in alone or in partnership with QA resourcesDocument functions and changes to new or modified modules, test activities/results, error handling and backup/recovery proceduresServe as 2/3rd level support and assist lower tier support for ongoing maintenance and production issuesSupport software development lifecycle and apply and follow appropriate programming/engineering methodologies and best practicesProvide rotational on-call support for applications and infrastructure supported by the team.Supervisory ResponsibilitiesCoach/mentor other team members as appropriateMinimum QualificationsEducationRequired: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experienceWork Experience/Skills:Required:* Three to five years of experience in IT role supporting Rest Services, Kafka, and Fuse* Experience in building microservices in spring boot* Experience in data ingestions pattern using Kafka* Experience with Source control, based on Git in Azure DevOps (ADO).* Experience with database framework like JPA.* Sound knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile frameworks and Dev Ops concepts* Knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures* Knowledge of design and programming techniques that provide security* Ability to debug code and/or troubleshoot and analyze defects* Sound understanding of application engineering concepts* Knowledge/experience with querying databases for data lookup/update* Understanding of support and integration patterns related to running third-party software packages.* SQL,.net, java, or other object-oriented development languages.