Sr. Software Engineer

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies. 

   

Position Description: 

The Sr. Software Engineer is a highly skilled and experienced professional responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex software applications, systems, or components. This role involves taking a leadership position within a development team, providing technical guidance, and driving the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and address performance bottlenecks or unexpected behavior.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and QA engineers, to achieve project objectives.
• Contributes to technical implementations of the Company's cloud platform.
• Create and review technical design documents or diagrams.
• Designs, builds, verifies and documents full-fledged software solutions of the highest complexity that addresses scalability, performance, and security requirements across multiple platforms.
• Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and quality assurance procedures.
• Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations.
• Optimize and maintain existing codebase; Participate actively in code reviews to maintain high code quality and adherence to standards.
• Partners with business leaders and functional groups to build compelling user-facing products.
• Plans large-scale solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that address customer and user challenges, improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt.
• Prioritizes and resolves production issues of the highest complexity and collaborates and/or escalates to others as necessary
• Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.

Competencies

• Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Application Development - The ability and skill to develop software through use of programming languages required for job responsibilities
• Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business Insights - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Document and Model User Requirements - Ability to utilize the appropriate modeling tool(s) to diagram the requirements from data and state changes, process and process improvements, as well as use cases and user stories; affinity diagram, managing changes to reuiqrements and requests, technical writing
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• IT Data Management - The ability and skill to develop and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization.
• IT Support - The ability and skill to monitor, diagnose and fix problems with technology products.
• IT Testing - The ability and skill to design, execute and report on systems/service tests to ensure that an application functions as specified in the requirements.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Measure Solution Performance - Ability to identify appropriate measures for assessing solution performance and limitations, validate with key stakeholders, and collect appropriate performance measures to assess overall solution performance to recommend specific actions to increase solution value.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Perform Gap Analysis - Ability to conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.0
• Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Provides Technical Support - Ability to employ customer-oriented behaviors that help engineers connect with their customers in productive and efficient ways, creating positive, defining moments; Communicates confidently during service interaction, Provides relevant product/service updates, Sets appropriate expectations
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Techniques - Ability to understand and apply the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and maintenance, to effectively develop software that supports modelling activities
• Troubleshoots Technical Issues - Ability to employ a systematic process for solving technical issues by identifying the problem and selecting an appropriate solution- defines the problem, Identifies the cause of problems, Isolates the problem, Justifies a solution, Resolves the problem, Verifies the problem

Qualifications

5 years of related experience preferred

Skills

• Communicates Effectively
• Cultivates Innovation
• Decision Quality
• Document and Model User Requirements
• Drives Results
• Ensures Accountability
• Nimble Learning
• IT Data Management
• Measure Solution Performance
• IT Support
• IT Testing
• Plans & Aligns
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Perform Gap Analysis
• Provides Technical Support
• Tech Savvy
• Troubleshoots Technical Issues
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Techniques
• Action Planning
• Collaboration
• Application Development

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