Job description
Section 1: Position Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer at Ascensus, you will be working in a high-energy team, writing beautiful code by using the best engineering practices in the industry today (e.g. unit testing, source control, continuous integration, automation, design patterns). Passion for all aspects of software development is critical. We are building teams that are empowered to solve the business needs by having a rapid development and deployment pipeline with a focus on automation and releasing software.
As a Scrum team contributor, you will be accountable for delivering solutions that adhere to the software architecture strategy, coding standards, and established organizational policies and procedures.
Section 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
Our I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
Design, build, and maintain scalable and robust applications
Evaluate, implement, test, document and maintain new and current software applications in aid of achieving the business goals with minimal supervision.
Create estimates and assist with planning throughout the software development life cycle.
Facilitate or assist in technical initiatives working with multiple groups
Establish and enforce development best practices
Coach and mentor other developers, provide continuous feedback
Expect and require innovation of her/his team
Demonstrate passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned
Supervision
N/A
Section 3: Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements
5-10+ years of experience developing software & systems for medium to large business environments
Strong experience in one or more programming languages, technologies and software platforms, such as C#, Java, JavaScript, MS-SQL Server, Sybase
At least 5+ year’s hands-on experience with one of the programming languages (e.g. C# or Java)
Excellent problem solving and communication skills
Familiarity with multi-threading
Strong experience with good design concepts (patterns, cohesion/coupling, S.O.L.I.D.)
Experience with Services Oriented Architecture and RESTful services development
Working knowledge of microservices
Experience with writing clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices (unit testing, TDD, continuous integration and deployment, automation, design patterns, refactoring etc.)
Strong experience working with other developers, quality engineers (QE), ops engineers and support engineers to ensure smooth deployment, continual operation and passion for developing good software.
Experience participating in design discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience mentoring and coaching more-junior developers
Experience documenting business solution in technical documents and diagrams
Familiarity or experience with Agile engineering practices
Working experience with Python, C/C++, MySQL, Apache, Ngnix, Redis, jQuery, knockout.js
Experience in open source development
Good comprehension of web technologies (HTTP, Apache, HTTP Proxies)
Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
Experience with multi-threaded applications and memory management
Familiarity with continuously deploying software in the Cloud
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.