Software Engineer II

Role Overview

• Develop low-to-medium complexity design documents and contribute to application diagrams from defined requirements.
• Take on small to medium tasks and drive them to completion with minimal coaching, including small research tasks and basic design work.
• Support the growth of QA team members and junior engineers, and participate in code reviews for peers, applying and adhering to established coding best practices and procedural standards.
• Support quality delivery by following the team's definition of done and flagging potential issues when identified.
• Develop and execute unit test plans, including regression testing, and assist in developing functional test plans to verify system functionality according to requirements and guidelines.
• Perform application administration and support, triaging and resolving integration issues, documenting, and tracking product defects, and implementing solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation schedule.
• Contribute to and follow Avalon’s Agile/SAFe process for developing, testing, maintaining, and deploying code.
• Collaborate with product owners, engineering leads, and architects, aligning IT solutions with business objectives.
• Adhere to the defined SDLC: Write code and tests that adhere to the company defined SDLC (software defined delivery lifecycle). Ensure all work complies with the team's definition of done.
• Incorporate AI tools into daily development workflows across code generation, debugging, research, and writing tests and documentation. Must review and validate all AI-generated output before submission and transparently flag AI usage to senior engineers or leads for appropriate oversight and review.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies or tools that enhance system performance maintainability.
• Work effectively within the immediate team and occasionally across other teams or enabler teams. Communicate clearly with the engineering manager, product owner, and scrum master. Explain medium-complexity problems and demonstrate completed work in sprint demos.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline; or equivalent relevant business and technical experience; Advanced degree desired.
• Minimum of 2 to 4 years of experience in application software development, maintenance, implementation, and support.
• Ability to interpret and implement low-level designs provided by architects or senior engineers and effectively communicate implementation details to the team.
• Solid experience in backend development with Java 21+, Spring Boot 3+, Hibernate, and other Spring libraries
• Working knowledge of AWS services (e.g., S3, EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda) and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of OOP concepts, design patterns, and MVC architecture.
• Experience using source control tools like GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and resolving merge conflicts.
• Experience with MS SQL Server and T-SQL.
• Experience with NoSQL a plus.
• Familiarity with middleware and integration concepts and techniques (SOAP, Web Services, XML, JSON, REST, SAML, APIs, Microservices).
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver and support quality solutions on time.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience with unit test frameworks such as JUnit.
• Working knowledge of patterns such as Dependency Injection, the Builder Pattern, and OOP.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• EC2
• Hibernate
• Java
• JUnit
• Microservices
• MS SQL Server
• NoSQL
• SDLC
• SOAP
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• SQL

Benefits

• remote work eligibility with quarterly travel required to corporate office
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Vet/Disability