[1013] Senior Software Engineer

Job Details

• Development:
• Ensure that applications will exhibit performance, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability.
• Develop software that operates within a highly scalable distributed multi-tiered platform.
• Build and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable and secure code.
• Through participation in refinement and planning sessions, you’ll work with other team members to analyse development requirements, provide design options and complexity estimates, and agree how to deliver the requirements.
• Review and provide technical feedback into detailed design specifications for application code and modules.
• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality, to ensure you deliver reliable, robust software through the creation and execution of automated tests.
• Provides assistance in researching new and emerging technologies. Works with vendors to understand technology. Evaluating new tools, technologies and platforms to be included.

DevOps:

• Responsible for platform stability, reliability, scalability and recovery
• Ensuring that development and monitoring tools, and platform are cost effective and within budget
• First point of contact for platform incidents and outages
• Documentation of processes and procedures
• Support and troubleshoot technical issues
• Build and maintain development tools and infrastructure
• Increase the frequency and quality of deployments

• Define, implement and manage zero downtime strategies
• Reduce the severity and frequency of release failures
• Ensure that development processes, platform and systems adhere to network administration and cyber security best practices
• Contribute to the company’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms and give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis
• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including technical requirements, time of delivery, demonstrations and costs
• Work closely with engineers within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide.

Job Requirements

• Experience 5+ years in software development
• Familiar with a variety of hardware and software platforms, demonstrated skills in system engineering paradigms.
• Experienced in software engineering with excellent knowledge of .NET (.NET Core, Entity Framework, JavaScript, APIs, etc.) and DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Practical experience with cloud-native application development with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with the following technologies: AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, Lambda, IAM, Aurora, Redshift, etc.) and cloud database technologies (AWS RDS, Aurora, Postgres, Azure SQL, etc.).

• Experience of SQL, query optimization and transactions
• Solid technical background with understanding of programming styles, frameworks, design patterns and unit testing.
• Understanding of security implications and secure coding
• Practical experience with agile development methodologies and tools (Scrum, JIRA etc.)
• Superb communication skills, both verbal and written

• Skill for writing clean, readable code and reusable components
• Experience with Test Driven Development and / or Behaviour Driven Development
• Self-motivated, pressure-tolerant, and result-oriented personality with innovation mind-set

Desired Skills:

• Experience with networks and network firewall security
• Experience with big data and IoT platforms: Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Timestream, Azure Time Series Insight, Kafka, etc.