Senior Software Engineer

Description

The role is a senior software engineering position based at 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716.

The posting covers the full cycle of a software component, from design and requirements through coding, testing and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions, including software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, MVP scope, non-functional requirements and telemetry.
• Help make processes and applications work together across specific components and modules, and weigh trade-offs against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudo code and functional logic for specific modules.
• Analyse requirements and scope, including traceability matrices, risk, cost, business objectives, requirement classification and user stories, and look for existing products or solutions that meet business or technical needs.
• Compare customer or business expectations with existing products and solutions, identify gaps and changes, and include this in each agile iteration.
• Classify requirements as functional or non-functional, derived, imposed or emergent, and so on.
• Spot solution risks during requirements gathering, tell the relevant stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps.
• Contribute to user stories for components, applications and complex work under agile methodology.
• Review coding standards and guidelines across languages (including JavaScript, Python and C), frameworks (including ActiveX,.Net, Cocoa and the Android application framework), tools (including Monday.com, Linx and Embold) and platforms (including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Apple iOS), plus quality, safety and security standards such as PCI.
• Use emerging tools and technologies, telemetry included, to write lean code that meets business, technical, maintainability, availability and scalability needs.
• Help choose languages, development standards and tools for coding and configuration.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive tasks in CI/CD, testing and other processes where relevant.
• Build telemetry features independently when needed.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied during development and configuration.
• Plan and run testing: test cases, objectives, strategy, types, tools (such as Selenium for automation, Jira for agile and Eggplant for mobile), environments and root cause analysis.
• Map customer requirements to test objectives, then write and run test cases to find errors and defects across the whole component, using the right tool for each type of test.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related field.
• Hands-on experience building dashboards and alerts with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Grafana or Dynatrace.
• Experience with alerting tools such as xMatters, Splunk and Spotlight.
• Experience with defect and ticketing tools such as JIRA, ServiceNow and Confluence.
• Experience automating jobs with CI/CD tools such as Maven, Jenkins and Ansible.
• Experience extracting and manipulating data in relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite and Toad, and in NoSQL databases such as Google Firestore, Cassandra and MongoDB.
• Experience writing quick Python, Shell and Perl scripts to fix production bugs.
• Experience with message systems such as Tibco, Kafka and IBM MQ for application communication.
• Experience with Java back-end development as a core framework.
• Experience with source code management in SVN, GitHub and Artifactory, including Nexus.
• Experience producing reports with visualisation tools such as D3.js, Tableau and Adobe Analytics.
• The company will consider any amount of experience with these required skills.

Conditions

Pay is $90,000 to $180,000 per year.

Annual or quarterly performance incentives are available as extra pay.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The company is committed to a drug-free workplace and has a zero-tolerance policy on illegal drugs and alcohol at work.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, performance-based incentive awards and other benefits.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance covering 100% of company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Some benefits have eligibility rules based on job classification and length of employment, and plans may change. Details are on the company's site.