Lead/Senior Software Engineer at Apex Systems (Austin, TX)

Location: Austin, TX

Length: 6 Contract to Hire

Technologies we use:

C#, Java, UI frameworks - React, AngularJS, AWS - SNS, SQS, Kinesis, Firehose, Data Storage - Oracle, SQL Server, DynamoDB, Postgres, API Management - Mashery, AWS API Gateway

Your Role:

• Architect, design, document and develop new programs or maintain existing programs based on specifications

• Act as technical resource for an agile scrum team and actively participate in the project planning, sprint planning, daily scrum, and sprint review

• Develop, implement and maintain unit tests of programs

• Be pragmatic about what were testing

• For the assigned applications, functional areas or projects:

• Develop and maintain thorough system knowledge

• Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting

• Facilitate functional test planning and testing

• Work with the team to maintain system quality

• Stay current with changes in the technical area of expertise, best practices, newer frameworks, and patterns related to all technologies (Backend + Frontend)

• Mentor other Software Engineers through the software development process

• 10+ years of work experience in a senior technical role with direct hands-on skill set

• Strong background in a high level language (C# or Java), Data management (SQL  and NoSQL technologies), AWS and REST APIs

• Prior experience building/maintaining a public facing API Product (API management tools, SwaggerHub)

• Ability to communicate, influence other supporting teams such as product, QA, DevOps, etc. to achieve the objectives

• Knowledge of development tools such as Visual Studio, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Fisheye, SVN, Eclipse or equivalent

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to drive all phases of development cycle including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and support

• BS in Computer Engineering/Science or related field. MS preferred

What We Look For:

• Someone whos passionate about and stays on the cutting edge of emerging API trends

• Experience building clean, well defined, backend services that scale to an ever-increasing user and workload demand

• Willingness to test as much of the core functionality of our app as possible

• Experience building and implementing scalable applications that use modern design patterns and practices

• Ability to turn high-level requirements into a working system through iterative development

• Ability to work on multiple projects and be flexible to adapt to changing requirements

• High energy, confident, ambitious and self-motivated individual

• Must be an effective communicator

• Willingness to mentor Software Engineers

• BS in Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent work experience

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