Senior Engineer

Job Profile: 

Position Objective: (Write a brief statement regarding the objective of the position. Define your acronyms.) 

The Senior Engineer will be primarily responsible to develop and manage the application code for complex systems or high-priority parts of a project. Additional responsibilities may include coaching and analyzing the work of 1 -2 Software Engineer Trainees/Software Engineers and incorporating their work into the overall project.  

This role is responsible for the technical detailed design of the unit for a specific project and the implementation of that design. The technical design responsibilities typically start on a single platform with a focus on a single service. 

Job Description: 

Major Opportunities and Decisions: (Describe the more difficult and/or complex challenges or opportunities and decisions faced in doing work, improving processes or meeting customer needs.) 

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting 

• Create/update the initial coding estimates. 

• Determine the detailed tasks required to create the code for a complex and high priority issues based on project specifications. 

• Support the team in project planning activities and in evaluating risks. 

• Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status. 

Design 

• Create a detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) with possible alternate solutions. 

• Fix the detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) for the comments received from analysts and submit the design to the Software Engineers/Tr. Software Engineers to begin code development. 

Development & Support 

• Work with the team to clarify and improve the design as required.  

• If applicable, design the database. 

• Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the technical specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.  

• Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.  

• Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.  

• Monitor the stage and state of assigned piece of code throughout the development process.  

• Review the application code created by Software Engineer Trainees/Software Engineers to ensure compliance to defined standards. Recommend changes to the code as required.  

• Perform peer reviews of code to ensure it meets coding and efficiency standards. 

Testing & Debugging 

• Write and execute the unit test cases and test each piece to verify the basic functionality before comprehensive testing.  

• Perform peer review of unit test cases. 

• Attend the Test Design walkthroughs to help verify that the plans and conditions will test all functions and features effectively.  

• Debug and resolve any project, code, or interface-level problems.  

• Fix function testing issues and/or client issues.  

• Test high priority and high complexity functionality/issues with support as needed 

Documentation 

• Create documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes. 

• Perform a peer review of the technical documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes 

Process Management 

• Adhere to the project and support processes. 

• Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.  

• Participate in route cause analysis 

Coaching and Mentoring 

• Coach Trainee Software Engineer /Software Engineers in the proper visual and efficiency standards, approach to unit testing, and appropriate content for documentation. 

• Act as a technical subject matter expert for the internal team on areas such as system functionality and approach including solving systems operations issues, performance initiatives. Leverage existing knowledge and expertise in multiple ways. 

Principal Accountabilities: (In order of importance, write a brief sentence describing each task which is performed to accomplish the position’s objective.  In addition, identify percent of time normally spent and whether the task is an essential or minor function) 

• Proficient in at least one of the following 

• C# 

• Asp.Net Core, Web Forms, Web APIs, Asp.Net MVC 

• HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript 

• Angular 2+ 

• T-SQL 

• Strong understanding of OOPS concepts 

• Experience with 

• Various common JavaScript libraries 

• Responsive design 

• Creating and consuming web services, Web API, or WCF 

• Secure website design and development 

• Application architecture and design patterns  

• MS SQL Server 

• Writing Stored Procedures, triggers, functions, designing db schema 

• Proficiency with code versioning tool like Git 

• Entity Framework 

• Creating interfaces for communication between different applications 

• Nice to have 

• Experience with Visual Studio 2019/2022 

• Experience with SQL Server 2016/2019/2022 

• Experience with automated unit testing and integration testing 

• Experience with graceful degradation and/or progressive enhancement websites. 

• Strong understanding of XML and JSON 

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration 

• Familiarity with AWS cloud services (SQS, S3, SNS, ECS etc) 

Knowledge:  

• 4 + Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards and\or use cases and develop functional application modules 

• Come up with approaches for a given problem statement  

• Design, build and maintain efficient and reusable C#.net core code 

• Design, build and maintain Microsoft .Net Web based applications 

• Fix identified defects or observations that are potential impacts or risks for the functionality 

• Ensure best possible performance and quality of the application using project and standard best practices 

• Help maintain code quality using project quality standard (or using tools) 

• Design and develop web user interfaces (good to know frameworks such as bootstrap) 

• Debug and Troubleshoot problems in existing code 

• Develop unit test cases and perform unit testing 

• Work on creating database tables, stored procedures, functions etc 

• Coordinate with AGILE team 

• Maintain updates to JIRA with the latest changes and appropriate status.  

Education and Experience: (Identify types and length of education and experience needed to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to accomplish the desired end results) 

Education: B E Computers, IT /MCA / MSc IT, Computer Science 

Experience: 4+ Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards and\or use cases and develop functional application modules.