Senior Software Engineer I

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Technical Leadership:

• Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
• Ability to work, liaising with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery
• Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost resource estimates as requested
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.

Delivering Technology:

• Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.
• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of service providers.
• Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning.
• Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes.
• Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams.
• Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development.
• Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels.
• Coordinates with application delivery and infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities.

IT Governance:

• Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i. e., IT governance, SMG, architecture, etc. ) and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed.
• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk.
• Ability to assess when risks need to be escalated to the right channels.
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes.

Requirements:

• Self-motivated and results-driven, with a passion for learning and growth.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• JavaScript and TypeScript as your primary development language.
• Experience with modern front-end or back-end web technologies and frameworks.
• Proven track record of working with scalable, high-quality web applications.
• Understanding of performance-related concerns, where issues can arise and how to solve for them.
• Strong understanding of data structures and software design patterns.
• Deep understanding of the difference in capabilities (such as orchestration, filtering, sorting, etc. ) that GraphQL provides over REST.
• Knowledge of when to best apply those capabilities.
• 2+ years working with GraphQL.
• 6+ years' contributing to large-scale API projects.
• 5+ years' technical delivery ownership of JavaScript projects.
• A desire to create a great GraphQL schema.
• AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification.
• Ability/understanding of how to use containerisation (Docker) for Node.js apps.
• Technical writing experience.
• Communication and business/product management experience.
• Education and Certifications: An AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification is required.