Software Engineer II

Vitu is a leading innovator in Vehicle-to-Government technology, transforming how vehicles, businesses, government, and drivers interact. The Software Engineer II role involves writing and maintaining code to implement new features, improve performance, and reduce technical debt, while also participating in Agile planning and product development.

Responsibilities:

• Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions
• Recommends viable solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt
• Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations
• Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning
• Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems
• Builds software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders
• Understands technical architecture and writes software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards
• Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary
• Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products
• Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight
• Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new software technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
• Scrum Developer Certification or equivalent
• 2 – 5 years of working experience
• Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems
• Working experience realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation and support
• Working experience in coding within multiple technology stacks (e.g. Front-end: browser and device typically using common client-side technologies – HTML, CSS, JavaScript; Back-end: server, application, database using languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, C#.Net, SQL Server)
• Working experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative)
• Working experience in analysis, design and programming
• Working experience with appropriate database technology