Senior Software Engineer

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERWHO IS SPR?SPR helps companies implement the right technology that helps them balance users’ expectations today while planning for tomorrow’s business demands. A technology modernization firm, SPR works together with clients to develop or modernize digital products and platforms.We’re 150+ strategists, developers, designers, architects, consultants, thinkers, and doers in Chicago and Milwaukee. We work with 100+ mid- to enterprise-size clients across industries like professional services and manufacturing. We think about the end users and rigorously apply the latest technologies and frameworks to address our clients’ needs. Specializing in custom software development, cloud, data, and user experience solutions, SPR promises to Deliver Beyond the Build by providing proactive advice, sharing knowledge, responding to change in an agile way, and investing time to deeply understand our clients’ business. We operate in a fun, casual work environment and have great benefits including competitive salary, bonuses, generous vacation time, big fitness incentives, and medical/dental/vision insurance. By joining the SPR team, you’ll be problem solving, working hard and making an impact through your projects – and you’ll be part of a unique culture and rewarded for it. WHAT IS THE POSITION?As a Senior Software Engineer at SPR, you will create complex solutions and play a key technical role within the company and with clients. You will be responsible for full lifecycle development and must be able to articulate design decisions and translate business requirements/user stories into application logic as a team member or as an individual. Our Engineers are a driving force behind the success of our projects. We're looking for a motivated self-starter who keeps an eye on trends and new technology in the industry and who is eager to tackle challenging troubleshooting and development tasks.RESPONSIBILITIES Full lifecycle software development and testing using modern tools and techniques Assists with mentoring and training of mid-level engineers and other team members Participates in new hire interview and onboarding processes Provides input into and helps document solution designs and technical strategies Communicates with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, and provide estimates Attend all daily stand-up sessions, project meetings (planning, review, etc.), client demonstrations, etc.PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities Able to manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills Great attitude and commitment Ability to handle diverse situations and changing priorities Expertise in the areas of design patterns, application architecture, distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms Ability to leverage AI tools in support of their work product in a professional and ethical manner Must be have expert level experience in aspects of modern software development: Must be willing to commute to client sites throughout the Chicago land areaTECHNOLOGIES WE USE C# / ASP.Net (MVC, Web API) / WPF / WCF / ORM (Entity Framework, NHibernate) / Automated testing (Unit testing, BDD) / SPA frameworks (AngularJS, Knockout, React) / TFS / PowerShell / Visual Studio / SQL Server and SQL / NoSQL (Mongo, Raven, DocumentDB, Cassandra, Maria, Riak) / Java (Spring, Spring Boot, Guice, JPA, jUnit) / JavaScript (node.js, npm, Karma, Jasmine, Phantom) / Build tools (Gradle, Maven, Ant) / Cloud (Azure, AWS, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Mesos, DC/OS) / Python / Scala / Big Data/Fast Data (Spark, Hadoop, Akka, Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Storm, Azure Stream Analytics, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Nifi, HDFS) /ElasticSearch / DevOps tools (Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) / Machine Learning (TensorFlow) /Data Visualization (Grafana, Kibana) / IoT Frameworks / Github CoPilot / Claude Code / Devin.ai / Rovo / Other AI Productivity ToolsEDUCATION & EXPERIENCE Must be willing to commute to client sites throughout the Chicago land area 5+ years of professional experience BA or BS, preferably in computer science, engineering, or science / technology-based disciplineCOMPENSATION & BENEFITSSPR prides itself on helping employees thrive in their work and life. As a result, SPR invests in benefits that include vacation time starting at 3 weeks, 5 days of sick time, 8 paid holidays and 3 floating holidays, maternity, and parental leave, and 401(k) with a match. Employees (and their families) are offered health, dental, & vision coverage, group life and AD&D, short/long-term disability, and flexible spending accounts. Employees receive a $150 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses and a premium subscription to the Calm app.SPR is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, Senior Software Engineer, the base salary pay range is $126,000 to $154,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.If this sounds like the kind of challenge you would be up for every day, we would love to hear from you. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veteran.