Software Developer

Software Development EngineerAs 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 levelAble to troubleshoot and refactor existing codeIndependently manage a support queueAdopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the workProactively seek reviews of their work from experienced membersInfluence the decisions made by the teamAssist peers and less experienced membersProfessional 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 vulnerabilitiesDevelopment 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 estimationPractices 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 efficientDevOps: 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 consumersTest 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 runsTesting 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 testingPlatform 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