Staff Software Engineer

Western Union • Atlanta, GA

3d

About The Position

This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing complex, multi-tier distributed software systems. The engineer will be responsible for assessing business needs, providing creative solutions, and ensuring product quality through rigorous testing and code reviews. Collaboration with geographically distributed teams and adherence to Agile methodologies are key aspects of this position.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with 8+ years of professional experience or MS with 6+ years of experience
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D
• Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages (for example, Java/C++) and design patterns
• Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Team player with strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment and adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure
• Experience with unit testing and mocking frameworks

Nice To Haves

• Experience in creating and consuming RESTful and SOAP based web services
• Experience with HTTP, XML, JSON, Node JS, JavaScript
• Hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, XML, Web technologies, Web Services
• Experience developing data-ingesting applications using an industry standard RDBMS. NoSQL experience
• Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Ability to adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure.
• Proven ability to understand the business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements
• Hands-on experience in building high performance and large-scale real-time systems that scale to billions of transactions per day

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers
• Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development
• Design layered application, including user interface, business functionality, and database access.
• Apply Agile methodology daily and follow Definition of Done (DoD) process for better quality by maintaining 80% and unit test coverage and 70% integration test coverage
• Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software systems throughout all phases of the software development process
• Develop technical & domain expertise and apply to solving product challenges
• Thorough code reviews
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out applications with cross-functional impacts
• Share engineering support and release

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior