Associate

As THE leader in transit technology, Clever Devices, (Hitachi Rail CD U.S. Ltd.) vision is to make meaningful contributions to worldwide mobility. Our goal is to be the leading provider of exciting technology that improves the quality of mobility in communities around the world. We are continuing to grow, and are looking for a Associate to join our team.

As an Associate Software Engineer/Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing (which includes writing programming code), testing, and documenting software systems. This includes developing new features, enhancing existing features and maintaining the existing programming code including performing bug fixes. This position serves as a career entry point into Software Engineering and offers the potential for growth within the Clever Devices organization.

The primary technologies used in this position are multi-threading, LINQ, data structures, ADO.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, writing stored procedures, unit testing, TCP and sockets, Windows Services, WCF web services, Windows Forms, HTML/JavaScript, ASP.NET, MVC3, and jQuery with jQueryUI.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Write maintainable, clean, re-usable, object-oriented, and efficient programming code in compliance with department standards and templates.
• Work within source control utilizing branching, merging, proper check-in procedures, and passing of continuous builds to ensure that software is always releasable.
• Practice Test Driven Development (TDD) and ensuring that unit tests are created prior to writing programming code and that any programming code is structured in such a way to maximize testability.
• Resolve software bugs in the programming code and modify unit tests to prevent future regression.
• Perform various types of testing including black box, white box, integration, functional, systems, sanity, smoke, regression, acceptance, stress, load, performance, usability, installation, recovery, security, compatibility, and more on software systems.
• Work within the context of department processes and procedures
• Peer review programming code and participate in code reviews.
• Learn and understand the technical details of all relevant products and having hands-on familiarity of the system as required.
• Contribute fresh, new ideas during developer meetings demonstrating a commitment on-going learning.
• Utilizing code coverage, code metrics, and other tools to improve quality of code.
• Raise concerns to management and team members.
• Any other tasks required by management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline is required. MS degree a plus.
• Educational or real-time work experience working with a relational database management system such as SQL Server or Oracle creating some relational database objects (tables, columns, stored procedures, scalar and table-valued functions, etc.)
• Experience with debugging techniques, such as breakpoints, watches, etc.
• Experience with a version control system such as GIT

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Entry-level working knowledge and skill with either C#/.NET 4.0 and greater or Java is essential. Skills in both would be an asset.
• Ability to quickly and independently learn about new technologies, business and technical terms and concepts is essential.
• Ability to discern between value-added and frivolous work.
• Ability to work as part of a team and individually with a self-starter ("can do") attitude.
• Comfortable speaking and interacting with technical and non-technical people.
• Excellent research, analytical, and organization skills with an exceptional eye for detail
• Ability to perform work activities according to set priorities and delivery timelines.
• Ability to take constructive criticism.
• Desire to participate in speaking engagements or be involved within user or other community groups or any other events attended by the department.
• Experience working in an Agile environment is an asset.

Clever Devices, (Hitachi Rail CD U.S. Ltd.) is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

The compensation range posted for this position represents the anticipated minimum and maximum compensation for this position based upon a good faith and reasonable estimate. The exact compensation offered will depend on several factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, training, education and/or physical location; internal equity; and, budget.

In addition, Clever Devices, (Hitachi Rail CD U.S. Ltd offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and time off, and many others, depending on the level and position offered. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice based on business need.