Senior Software Engineer

Description

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

The work covers solution design through testing, plus hands-on SAP HANA database administration, operations and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions, including software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, minimum viable products, non-functional requirements and telemetry.
• Help shape how processes and applications interact across specific components or modules, weighing trade-offs against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for specific modules or components.
• Analyse requirements and scope, including traceability matrices, risk, cost, business objectives, requirement classification and user stories, and find existing products or solutions that fit.
• Identify gaps and changes between customer expectations and current products, including per-iteration gaps for agile work.
• Sort requirements into types such as functional, non-functional, derived, imposed and emergent.
• Spot solution risks early in requirements gathering, tell the right stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps.
• Help write user stories for components, applications and complex features in agile teams.
• Review coding standards, languages such as JavaScript, Python and C, frameworks such as ActiveX,.Net, Cocoa and the Android application framework, tools, platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS and Apple iOS, and quality, safety and security standards such as PCI.
• Use emerging tools and telemetry to build lean code that meets business, technical and non-functional needs, with low maintenance cost, high availability and high scalability.
• Help choose languages, development standards and tools for coding and configuration.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive work in CI/CD, testing and other processes where it makes sense.
• Build telemetry features on your own when needed.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied to components and applications while they are being built or configured.
• Plan and run testing: test cases, objectives, strategy, types, tools such as Selenium, Jira and Eggplant, environments and root cause analysis.
• Map customer requirements to test objectives, then write test cases for each component or module.
• Run test cases to find errors and defects across the full component, using the right testing tool for each type of test.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, plus 3 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Hands-on experience monitoring SAP HANA database performance, tuning and optimising it, managing workload classes, and handling patching, backups and recovery.
• Experience installing, removing and upgrading SAP HANA support patches, and migrating HANA databases.
• Experience applying SAP Notes to fix index server problems on the HANA database.
• Experience running HANA health checks with SAP Mini-check and custom scripts, and automating those tasks.
• Experience administering systems with SAP HANA Cockpit and HANA Studio.
• Experience running HANA on multiple nodes with Pacemaker for high availability.
• Experience defragmenting HANA data volumes and partitioning tables.
• Experience starting and stopping HANA DB processes and automating them with LaMa.
• Experience writing, implementing and maintaining disaster recovery plans that meet departmental and organisational requirements.
• Experience automating and simplifying HANA delivery so releases are fast, consistent and on schedule.
• Experience supervising and managing all security certificates and licences for SAP HANA.
• Any amount of experience with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

Full location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716.

Pay is $90,000.00 to $180,000.00 per year.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and runs a drug-free workplace with a no-tolerance policy on illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Performance incentives are paid annually or quarterly, on top of base pay.
• 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 time.
• Short-term and long-term disability, military service pay, company discounts and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Education assistance covering 100% of college degree costs.
• Eligibility for some benefits depends on job classification and length of employment, and benefits and plan terms may change.