Senior IT Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineers are primarily responsible for designing highly complex solutions and overseeing the execution of those designs. This role requires an individual dedicated to building exceptional software, demonstrating a commitment to quality and innovation. The ideal candidate will independently, or with limited supervision, develop and test software systems or applications aimed at enhancing existing products and creating new solutions. Responsibilities include developing software and tools that support design, infrastructure, and technology platforms, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance and reliability.

Senior Software Engineers will typically possess:

• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).

• Significant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.

• Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.

• Significant understanding of cloud-native software engineering best practices.

• Familiarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.

• Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.

• Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases.

• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.

• Familiarity and able to comfortably work with multiple platforms.

• Experience turning complex ideas into user stories. From that, can turn user stories into workable solutions, providing estimates to complete that work, and breaking down complex work into smaller components.

• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.

• Deep understanding of development cycle.

• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.

• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.

• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.

• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.

• A deep and solid understanding of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption. Ability to leverage and recommend common security libraries applicable to their language stack and solid experience with secure programming best practices. Knowledgeable of common attack vectors, such as SQL injection, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting, etc. and methods to limit exposure. Quick to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities.

• Experience working with one or more CI/CD stacks and associated best practices. Ability to setup CI/CD for new products with no guidance. Recommends and implements modifications to CI/CD processes when continuous improvement opportunities are identified.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.

• Program well-designed, efficient code independently.

• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build cloud native software solutions targeting PCF, Azure, AWS, mobile iOS/Android, etc.

• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.

• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with juniors to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.

• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.

• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.

• Coach and mentor software developers.

• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.

• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.

Basic/Required Qualifications:

• Associates degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree.

• Minimum of 5 years related work experience

• In lieu of Associates degree AND 5 years related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 7 year(s) related work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of programming languages, operating systems and computer networks

• Full-stack development experience

• Familiarity with Angular (or other JavaScript based framework), Java, Python and private and/or public cloud (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Azure, AWS, etc.) environments

• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid Mobility Classification – Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable daily commute to a Duke Energy facility.