Software Engineer

Churchill Downs Incorporated•Lyndon, KY

151d

About The Position

Work with a large team to design and develop custom full-stack software solutions for our racing, gaming, and entertainment patrons. Contribute to and coordinate with the Agile Scrum team to achieve mutually deliverable goals. Create and improve processes to develop our gaming software applications. Responsible for specification, setup, operation, and continuous improvement of our Java software developments. Write and support back-end Java applications that further the objectives of the organization. Perform development against a relational database using MySQL and develop applications in AWS, AWS Aurora, and AWS Lambda. Design and participate in the development of web-based responsive apps, and back-end business web services for consumer-facing products. Develop reusable, efficient software application code that lends itself to continual improvement and delivery. Manage and support a code repository, including orchestration deployment in a highly secure environment. Collaborate with peers and team members to design and achieve optimal software application design solutions. Document and troubleshoot software application bugs as required to maintain a successful application platform. Investigate new technologies, techniques, and industry developments. Improve operations by conducting system analysis. Recommend changes in software application policies and procedures. Determine software application operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. Develop software solutions by conferring with users, studying information needs, systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

Master’s degree in computer science, computer information technology, engineering, or closely related
Two (2) years of experience as software engineer or software developer
Must have work experience in each of the following: 1) architecting solutions using AWS Lambda, EC2, SQS, SNS, S3, ELB, and API Gateway; 2) integrating RabbitMQ for event-driven communication; 3) crafting user interfaces with AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and TypeScript; and 4) using TDD/BDD methodologies and JUnit, Mockito, and Selenium to create test suites.

Responsibilities

design and develop custom full-stack software solutions
Contribute to and coordinate with the Agile Scrum team to achieve mutually deliverable goals
Create and improve processes to develop our gaming software applications
Responsible for specification, setup, operation, and continuous improvement of our Java software developments
Write and support back-end Java applications that further the objectives of the organization
Perform development against a relational database using MySQL and develop applications in AWS, AWS Aurora, and AWS Lambda
Design and participate in the development of web-based responsive apps, and back-end business web services for consumer-facing products
Develop reusable, efficient software application code that lends itself to continual improvement and delivery
Manage and support a code repository, including orchestration deployment in a highly secure environment
Collaborate with peers and team members to design and achieve optimal software application design solutions
Document and troubleshoot software application bugs as required to maintain a successful application platform
Investigate new technologies, techniques, and industry developments
Improve operations by conducting system analysis
Recommend changes in software application policies and procedures
Determine software application operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
Develop software solutions by conferring with users, studying information needs, systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle