Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Location: Cary NC (Onsite presence is required) A Senior Software Engineer will develop, maintain, and support new or existing software products while evangelizing and applying the best practices of software development. Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

Job Accountability/Responsibilities:

• Quality: Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests. Minimize the number of production escapes. Support user acceptance testing. Support and conduct system/performance/volume/stress testing.
• Usability/User Experience: Collaborate with business and/or UX team to create appropriate user interfaces. Assist with mock-ups and user interface design. Incorporate UX components into applications. Provide feedback to UX teams.
• Product Reliability & Response: Ensure the system can meet or exceed defined SLAs. When acting as the primary on-call, respond to pages within 15 minutes and resolve or escalate issues as necessary. Resolve production issues and communicate resolutions to appropriate stakeholders.
• Development: Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met. Conduct analysis and design work. Prepare technical documentation. Estimate work effort (story pointing) and task-out development effort for a given story or task. Follow the Railinc development process and suggest improvements. Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.
• Leadership (Technical): Evangelize Railinc common practices and development procedures. Exhibit technical leadership in a given technical subject domain. Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities. Mentor peers and junior developers. Delegate and coordinate functional development tasks as needed. Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Knowledge, Skills, abilities/minimum requirements/competencies:

• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization – including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 7 years of Java experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Experience in front-end technologies like Angular or equivalent.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience building containerized applications; Kubernetes experience a plus.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, APIs, and managing REST services.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise in using version control software like Git.
• Experience with handling deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques etc.
• Experience working with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53 is a plus.
• Experience deploying application components in AWS EKS clusters.
• Experience using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with security concepts such as handling JWT tokens and understanding OIDC flows.
• Experience working with messaging and MQ brokers is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, OpenTofu, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of core IaC concepts is preferred.

Education, experience, certification/training: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience. Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment. AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.

Values:

• Results: We deliver on our promises to create value for the freight rail industry through talented people, good ideas, business leadership and great technology.
• Collaboration: We collaborate with our teams and our customers to get the job done, respecting individual ideas and contributions, and moving forward in pursuit of shared goals.
• Service: We serve the changing needs of our customers and our industry to enhance the value they bring to our community, the environment, and our economy.

Physical Requirements: Sedentary work : Assignment involves sitting at workstation (desk) most of the time (up to 8 hours) with only occasional walking and/or standing. Keyboarding : Primarily using fingers for typing. Talking : Expressing or communicating verbally through use of spoken words (accurately conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others). Hearing : Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound. Visual : Through close visual acuity, required to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing computer terminal; extensive reading (with or without correction). Environment : Because the requirements of this position require frequent, often informal collaboration with other Railinc colleagues and external stakeholders, and to maximize the development of the skills and responsibilities essential for this position, Railinc expects that the work required of this role be performed predominantly in the office consistent with Railinc's in-the-office work policies, as communicated by Human Resources and/or Senior Management. Any individual variations on in-the-office work policies will be reviewed by Human Resources on a case-by-case basis. As work is performed predominantly within an office setting, there is no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions (i.e., extreme heat, cold, noise, etc.).

Disclaimer: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The company reserves the right to change, modify and/or delete aspects of this position as needed at any time. Equal Opportunity Employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.