Software Engineer II

About the job
About PDI

PDI, the leader in enterprise management software for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale markets, delivers solutions to connect to intelligent business. Our people-first approach, combined with our 35-year heritage and best-in-class technology, helps our customers thrive in today’s digital economy. We’re passionate about our customers’ & employees’ success and delivering exceptional experiences. Our vision is simple: we want to be the global leader in enterprise management software to the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industries, and we’re well on our way. People often say it takes a village to raise a child. The same could be said of building a great company. With the help of our amazing team and loyal customers, we’re writing new pages in our success story every day. Join us for the next chapter!

The Opportunity

If you love to develop great quality software and are eager to learn new technologies and develop new skills, then we have a great opportunity for you: join our PDI family and work closely with other talented PDI engineers to deliver solutions that delight our customers every day!

As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of an agile team responsible for developing, testing, delivering & maintaining features for our logistics solutions. Collaborating with your team members, scrum master & product owner, you will regularly identify opportunities to improve deliverable quality and team productivity. You must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments and ready to learn new programming languages & technologies.

Primary Responsibilities

 Participate in all activities & ceremonies as an agile team member

 Participate in design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles

 Prepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager with appropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on schedule

 Actively develop software solutions for PDI products

 Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements

 Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems

 Use a disciplined approach in an Agile environment to assist in analysis and determination of preferred solutions to technical challenges

 Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with other 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

 2-5 years’ experience designing and developing new or maintaining existing software applications in a software product development environment

 Minimum proficiency required in one or more of the following: .NET and C#, MSSQL, JavaScript, Angular6, ASP.NET, MVC.

 Experience on Mobile Technologies like Xamarin, Flutter or React Native is added advantage.

 Familiar with Visual Studio or VS Code and source control (TFS, Git, SVN)

 Familiar with SDLC and Agile methodologies

 Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action

 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

 Retail and wholesale petroleum industry knowledge & experience preferred