Senior/Principal Software Engineer (Scottsdale)

Position: Senior/Principal Software Engineer

Type: Full Time

Location: Scottsdale, AZ or Roseville, CA

Senior/Principal Software Engineer

We are currently looking for an experienced senior engineer to join our team in Roseville, CA or Scottsdale, AZ that brings awesome talent to help us in our mission.

Software is about empowerment. Parchment is a company that is helping lifelong learners around the world to empower themselves to make the most of their academic achievements. As a Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a hand-picked team of talented, dynamic, and creative developers. Together you’ll create the SaaS services and platform that will help millions to change their lives.

Parchment actively seeks employees that are passionate about education, technology, and doing their very best every day. We have a culture of excellence and are transforming to a DevOps organization as we implement TDD/ATDD in our push towards Continuous Delivery. We employ technologies such as Micro Services, React/Redux, Docker, Terraform, Chef Automate, OpenStack and others and invest in the necessary training to master each.

Turns out when you hire excellent people, you end up with an excellent place to work. As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a team player. You’ll code alongside your team and other teams. You’ll envision the software stack from top to bottom. You’ll collaborate with Product Management, Quality Assurance, Release Management, and Production Services.

Parchment is growing, and we want our top talent to grow with us. That’s why we invest time and energy in developing our employees. Parchment will invest in helping you develop the skills and provide opportunities for growth.

Primary Responsibilities

Ability to work alongside high performing teams of software engineers delivering on strategic objectives with a continuous improvement mindset.

Work with your team to implement back-end services that provide, store, and transform data and other business intelligence operations. Support and enhance rich client side solutions.

Facilitate integration of SOA Infrastructure/Services (REST, SOAP, JMS), ESB and BPM systems into the overall operations and support framework.

Develop specifications, design documents, sample data, and unit tests.

Writes code, contribute to documenting specifications, API specifications, and knowledge sharing, unit tests, and participate in code reviews.

Works closely with your team lead and product owners to deliver commitments per iteration and be an active participant in our maturity within the agile development process.

Qualifications & Requirements

The candidate must have 7 or more years of Java industry experience and be familiar with agile development.

Experience with agile or other rapid application development methods (Continuous Delivery).

Expert knowledge of Java and Java servlet technologies.

Strong knowledge and experience in Spring and Spring boot development.

Expert understanding of and experience with MVC frameworks.

Proficiency in SQL, JPA/Hibernate. Schema design a plus.

Use of Git, Maven, IntelliJ, and familiarity with continuous integration practices.

Able to communicate and work effectively in a team environment.

Excellent written and verbal communications.

US Citizenship or Permanent US Resident.

Desired Education & Experience

Bachelor’s in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.

7 or more years of Java software development.