Description

The Opportunity

Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the highest standards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive software engineer, an advocate of agile development practices, and a proponent of continuous improvement? Well if this is you, then join and energetic team of engineers building next generation development applications for PDI!

You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we drive to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend & implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of our products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of status and supported in their roles.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments and learning a variety of programming languages.

Primary Responsibilities

Oversee and contribute to design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
Lead small and medium sized projects
Guides and trains less experienced engineers
Work with Architecture and DevOps teams to evaluate tools, process, and technologies.
Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
Prepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager with appropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on schedule
Make recommendation for data model and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
Actively develop software solutions for PDI products
Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements
Use a disciplined approach in an Agile environment to assist in analysis and determination of preferred solutions to technical challenges
Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions
Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems
Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans
Work with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature work
Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization

Qualifications

5-9 years’ experience designing and developing new or maintaining existing software applications in a software product development environment
Proficiency required in all of the following: .Net and C#, SQL, JavaScript Web Frameworks (e.g. Angular), ASP.NET MVC.
Familiarity with the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and the use of Azure DevOps or Jira
1+ year of experience serving as a technical team lead preferred
2+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologies
Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
Computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures & algorithms

Education

Any Graduate