Senior IT Software Engineer

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Position Summary

An individual who is dedicated to building exceptional software. Independently or limited supervision, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms. Senior Software Engineers are primarily responsible for designing highly complex solutions then building and overseeing the execution of those designs.

Role requirements:

• Design and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.

• Program well-designed, efficient code independently.

• Ability to elicit, analyze, and translate business requirements into well-defined Jira stories and acceptance criteria

• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build cloud native software solutions targeting Azure & AWS.

• Familiarity with building solutions using angular, React and Node.js

• Designing and building large-scale platform, cloud, or distributed systems.

• AWS services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS, KMS, Secrets Manager, RDS, and DynamoDB.

• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.

• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with juniors to expand the team's collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.

• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.

• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.

• Coach and mentor software developers.

• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.

• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.

Senior Software Engineers will typically possess:

• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).

• Significant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.

• Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.

• Significant understanding of cloud-native software engineering best practices.

• Familiarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.

• Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.

• Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases.

• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.

• Familiarity and able to comfortably work with multiple platforms.

• Experience turning complex ideas into user stories. From that, can turn user stories into workable solutions, providing estimates to complete that work, and breaking down complex work into smaller components.

• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.

• Deep understanding of development cycle.

• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.

• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.

• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.

• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.

• A deep and solid understanding of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption. Ability to leverage and recommend common security libraries applicable to their language stack and solid experience with secure programming best practices. Knowledgeable of common attack vectors, such as SQL injection, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting, etc. and methods to limit exposure. Quick to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities.

• Experience working with one or more CI/CD stacks and associated best practices. Ability to setup CI/CD for new products with no guidance. Recommends and implements modifications to CI/CD processes when continuous improvement opportunities are identified.

Responsibilities

• Develop software platforms and frameworks

• Maintain services, monitor system health, and continually look for improvements

• Scale systems sustainably using continuous deployment and automation

• Research and implement best design principals in order to improve reliability and velocity

• Work in an agile environment and engage in practices such as XP, test driven development

• Works with technical staff to understand problems with software and resolves them.

• Resolves customer complaints with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements from customers

• Collaborate with other software engineers, developers, designers, and product owners

• Determine hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design

• Has system-wide responsibility on complex projects. Provides direction to team, is a key contributor, and coaches new team members

Required/Basic Qualifications

• Associates degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree

• 5 years related work experience

• In lieu of Associates degree(s) AND 5 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 7 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications

• Previous Duke Energy experience

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree

• Masters degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of programming languages, operating systems and computer networks

• Full-stack development experience

• Familiarity with Angular (or other JavaScript based framework), Java, Python and private and/or public cloud (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Azure, AWS, etc.) environments

• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Working Conditions

• Hybrid Mobility Classification - Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable daily commute to a Duke Energy facility

• Office Environment

Specific Requirements

• Associate's Degree + 5 yrs work experience

• Bachelor's + 3 yrs work experience

• Master's + 1 yr work experience

Travel Requirements

5-15% Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)No Represented/Union PositionNo Visa Sponsored PositionNo. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

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