Senior Software Engineer

Description

This is a senior software engineering role based at 10900 NE 4th Street, Bellevue, WA 98004.

The work spans requirements, design, building, testing and maintaining software components, applications and modules for a product.

Responsibilities

• Find gaps, updates and changes needed between customer and business expectations and the current product and solutions, per iteration when the team works in agile.
• Sort requirements into their applicable types.
• Spot solution risks and issues during requirements gathering, alert the relevant stakeholders and propose corrective steps.
• Help write user stories for software components, applications or complex systems.
• Help design software so that processes and applications work together across components and modules.
• Weigh design trade-offs for a component against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for modules and components.
• Build and configure lean code for whole components or applications, making sure they meet business, technical and non-functional needs, including low maintenance, high availability and high scalability.
• Help select suitable languages, development standards and tools for coding and configuration.
• Learn the basics of different coding languages and frameworks on your own initiative, for future work.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive, routine work in CI/CD, testing and other processes.
• Build telemetry features independently where needed.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied in code and configuration.
• Turn customer requirements into test objectives, then identify and write test cases for components or modules.
• Run test cases and suitable test types with appropriate tools to find errors and defects across the full component.
• Track and analyze defects, and run regression tests after every code change.
• Review defects from past engineering work so similar ones do not come back.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex application maintenance independently.
• Track and analyze metrics to monitor and evaluate application performance.
• Carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance, along with re-engineering work.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance data and performance data, and report your findings.
• Assess change requests to decide which are valid and feasible.

Requirements

• A master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related field, plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or a related area; or a bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of those fields, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Experience coding in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python and C++.
• Experience designing and building REST API web services in Java.
• Experience using Git for source control and team development.
• Experience designing client-server applications.
• Experience with relational databases, using SQL for storage and queries.
• Experience optimizing database queries and stored procedures for performance.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience setting up application deployment through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and integrating services with internal and external APIs.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure software quality.
• Experience reviewing code and following standard software development best practices.
• No minimum amount of experience is set for these skills; any amount counts.

Conditions

Salary range is $143,104 per year to $216,000 per year.

Work location is 10900 NE 4th Street, Bellevue, WA 98004.

Eligibility for some benefits depends on job classification and length of employment.

Benefits can change and may be governed by specific plan or program terms.

The employer is an equal opportunity employer.

The workplace is drug-free, with zero tolerance for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentives, paid annually or quarterly.
• Medical, vision and dental health coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Education assistance covering 100% of college degrees, paid by the company.
• Company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement and other benefits.