Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware.

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering

ob Overview:

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Mastery of software systems
• Proficient at complex programming exercising independence and discretion while working independently or as part of a team
• May lead a team on short or long-term projects as needed
• Act as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain and may act as the technical leader within a team
• Works independently to create new products, new features, implement software enhancements, correct defects.
• Set the direction for design and implementation of software features/functionality, correction of defects and/or creation of new products
• Documents and communicates on complex technical topics outside the immediate development team
• May interact with customer users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
• History of success working within a team environment
• Will require to debug and provide resolutions for the legacy code.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven experience in designing and deploying secure, scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, cost-efficient solutions in AWS public cloud
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Experience in building and testing Java EE applications
• Experience in REST API, JMS, Json documents
• Multithreading, memory management in code, performance aspects
• Experience with SQL Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MSSQL, DB2 …) including JDBC
• Some experience in / or a willingness to learn new technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js, JS frameworks, NoSQL databases
• Proficient understanding and experience of code versioning tools, such as Bitbucket, Git
• Experience with fully Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment e.g. Jenkins
• Agile development methodologies
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Primary Skills: Java, Apache kafka, Webservice.
• IDE: Eclipse
• Tools: Docker, Ant, Maven, Git, Jenkins, Git, Confluence, JIRA,
• Testing: Junits, Mockito
• AWS Services : EC2, S3
• Databases: PostgreSQL
• OS: Windows Server, Linux/Unix
• Good to have: EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) domain knowledge
  
  

Education:

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Travel Requirements:

0-10%

• Job Family Group: Engineering
• Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering
• Job Profile Name: Senior Software Engineer
• Employee Type:Individual Contributor
• Job Level: P4 (Advanced)
  
  

Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to [email protected]. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!