Junior Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Participate in cultivating a helpful, team-oriented environment by mentoring and coaching junior developers.
• Work with Project Management team to provide estimation of development efforts and activities breakdown.
• Implement and improve code reviewing process to optimize the development workflow, i.e. help institute automated static code scanning within the development workflow.
• Responsible for documenting detailed technical designs based on system designs provided by the systems engineer.
• Take pride and ownership of designing, developing and unit testing micro-services using a combination of Java and GoLang within an AWS driven platform.
• Verify accuracy and completeness of programs by preparing sample data and unit testing components.
• Strive to ensure upkeep of technical knowledge and expertise in AWS technologies through self-learning and certifications.
• Analyze and solve problems that are complex and may be routine in nature, requiring varied responses depending on the situation.
• Interact with peers before updating supervisors, interaction will often be with management levels at the client and/or within Dream Payments.
• Receive minimal instruction on daily work tasks and moderate level of instruction on new assignments.
• Participate in design, JAD and RAD sessions with senior developers.
• Responsible for deployment of code and environments as needed.
• Responsible for the development and deployment build scripts.
• Participate in production support activities for troubleshooting and investigating issues.
• Look for opportunities to continuously improve development workflow and suggest optimization opportunities for improvement to the team.
• Ensure assigned tasks are completed and delivered within the project timelines, working overtime as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, and Golang.
• Working knowledge of software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with using IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, or Eclipse.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud computing services such as Lambda, CloudFormation, API Gateway, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, etc.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
• Working knowledge of bash/shell scripting.
• 1+ years of experience with SQL scripting and working with one of the following databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, or Postgresql.
• 3+ years of experience with developing and using RESTful/SOAP Web Services.
• 1+ years of experience with using version control tools such as SVN/GIT.
• 1+ years of experience with using Docker/Fargate/Kubernetes container management platforms.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• DynamoDB
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Python
• Shell Scripting
• SOAP
• SQL
• Subversion
• Unix
• Go

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities