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This role will routinely make key decisions for the team, be accountable for application quality, and be highly productive.\nWorking in our Software Engineering team, you will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and sustaining software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will design and create engineering specifications for building software programs based on a broad knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements.\nAn ideal candidate will be comfortable growing others on the team as an informal leader. They would have very strong competency with Java and be knowledgeable about Spring Boot and Spring as it relates to building out microservices. 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Lead reviewing design alternatives, problems, and solutions with an eye on limiting the need for later problem solving.\nConsistently influence and make significant decisions within a project, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions based in a solid understanding of business strategy and best practices with minimal instructions for difficult or unpredictable situations.\nContribute individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives, and work effectively with others in a group setting. This includes mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance for junior members of the team.\nBuild successful internal and external partnerships with peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers.\nCommunicate clear and concise project plans/designs and status updates for a project.\nAbility to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.\nUphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.\nSupport and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.\nMaintain regular and reliable attendance.\nAbility to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties .\nComplete knowledge and full understanding of software development design and development, and relevant domain specific skills.\nUnderstanding of and significant experience with object-oriented programming.\nRESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entities Framework). \nDemonstrated experience designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g., Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, etc.).\nAgile development tools; including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.\nC++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, Google Web Toolkit.\nApplicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis. 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