Software Developer II

How many years of experience is required for this role? Minimum years of experience v. preferred.:
3+ as we would want someone that is experienced based on the technical and functional skills required, but open to candidates with 1-3+ if they have the experience.

This role is for onsite : Yes, This role is located in Seattle at Seattle HQ.

Please provide 2-3 values or traits that are important to this role
Are you a highly hardworking and motivated software engineer who loves working on large scale projects that impact millions of customers? We are in search of someone who enjoys developing with cloud, database, and streaming technologies such as AWS, SQL / NoSQL DB, and Kinesis!

Please list 3-4 functional activities the resource should be capable of
What you’ll do:
* You will develop, debug, and modify components of software applications and tools.
* You will write automated unit, integration and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
* You will support and troubleshoot data and/or system issues as needed
* You will provide improvements to solutions for a given problem
* You will define, develop and maintain artifacts like technical design or business partner documentation
* You will resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur, follow through on details, and drive issues to closure with help from your peers.
* You will actively participate in code and design reviews
* You will participate in user story creation in collaboration with the team

What technical skills will successful candidates possess?
Who you are:
* Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or a related major and/or equivalent work experience
* Experience using code versioning tools for e.g Git or others
* Experience in Agile/Scrum software development practices
* Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely
* 1-3+ years experience in Software Engineering
* Experience in writing transactional web services
* Experience in JVM technologies, Kotlin or functional programming in an equivalent language a strong plus.
* Experience in SQL and NoSQL data stores
* Experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, Aurora, RDS, DocumentDB), Redis, Chef
*3+ as we would want someone that is experienced based on the technical and functional skills required, but open to candidates with 1-3+ if they have the experience.