The Software Engineer will enhance and maintain e-commerce software, managing microservices and collaborating on technical solutions while ensuring software quality and performance.
The Software Engineer, as a member of the software development team, will be focused on developing/enhancing/maintaining our proprietary e-commerce software platform. Our customers trust our company when buying and selling the heavy equipment, trucks and other capital assets they use to run their businesses
Responsibilities
- Takes ownership of parts of the microservices architecture.
- Provide inputs in shaping up project delivery schedule by estimating the assigned work and time that would be spent.
- Identify areas that are not clearly defined, know whether to escalate to senior team members to have broader discussions, or find a technical solution on your own.
- Responsible for diving into a large code base, comprehend various components, and start to contribute to the code base in a short period of time.
- Clarifies (sometimes non-technical) requirements (or problem) descriptions, quickly locate corresponding system components, work with other engineers (as necessary) to come up with technical solutions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Prior experience building software in a professional, multi-team environment
- Skills in building and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant products
- Knowledge of Agile and the full software development lifecycle, including deployment and operation
- Be dedicated to the quality of your work through unit testing, automation testing, and assisting our 3-tier support staff when incidents arise
- Deep prior experience building software in a professional, multi-team environment.
- At least five (5) years of .NET Development leveraging .NET 4.x, ASP.NET, C#, MVC, Web API, SQL Server, and MySQL
- HTML5, CSS, Restful web services, JQuery, Bootstrap, JS, and JSON
- Database designing, database performance, management, and tuning experience
Must-Have Qualifications
- Willingness and ability to support on-call responsibilities.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate within the project team, across application teams, and with customers.
Nice-to-Have Experience
- Having Guidewire is a plus
- Familiarity with Azure, and AWS platforms.
- Ability to attend an onsite interview for the second round.
- Knowledge of the auto insurance or auto auction industry is a plus.
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