Founding Full Stack Software Engineer Jobs in Reading, PA

What You Will Be Doing:
As a Software Engineer, you will participate in all aspects of the Software Development lifecycle by supporting Penske's proprietary financial applications including Account Payable and receivable, General ledger, Penske Electronic Matching systems. You will troubleshoot issues as they occur while also developing new software modules across multiple small to medium projects concurrently. You will have an opportunity to lead the design of certain software components and suggest new products, applications, and features based on industry and technological trends and advances. You will also consult with process owners in reviewing, interpreting and developing systems in accordance with user requirements. You will be responsible for working with business and developing financial applications modernization roadmap. You will be working with a diverse team and mentoring junior software engineers.
Penske Responsibilities:
• Be the primary contact and lead support associate for multiple applications.
• Play a critical role in supporting the application lifecycle (design, development, test, release, and support) based on detailed requirements and guidance from senior engineers/leads.
• Collaborate with technical/business leaders and product owners to acquire and understand requirements/acceptance criteria.
• Develop, maintain, test, analyze performance, troubleshoot/fix applications and applicable code
• Support mission-critical applications and assist in the resolution of customer issues.
• Design backend database schemas.
• Produce deliverables with clean, well-documented, and easily maintainable code that adheres to defined coding standards.
• Write unit / UI tests to identify defects and leverage CI/CD for building and deploying code.
• Triage production issues and work with multiple teams to perform problem analysis.
• Assign and review tasks from junior and offshore software engineers.
• Participate in conducting new hire interviews.
• Influence the discovery and decision-making process when changes to standards and technology are required (tools, conventions, and design patterns)
• Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, and implementation strategies)
• Other projects/tasks as assigned.
This position will be based out of Reading, Pennsylvania.
About the team:
Specifically, this role will be an integral part of our Financial and Admin development groups that are collocated in Reading-PA, Tampa-FL, and India. You will be responsible for working with internal customers, external vendors, consultants, and various cross-functional teams.
Qualifications
Ideal candidates will have development experience in the following areas:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science/computer engineering or equivalent years of software development experience.
• 10+ years' experience of appropriate programming languages IBMi RPG/400, RPG FREE, ILE, CL, CLLE, DBU, DB2SQL, SQLRPGLE
• SQL -Experience in writing optimized complex SQL statements in DB2
• IBM I rational, Implementer/MDCMS, Xanalysis, Advance Query Tool, Jira, Confluence
• Must ensure assigned tasks are completed on time to meet sprint velocity.
• Experience with Agile methodology and usage of Jira board with daily standups
• Strong negotiation skills and experience in working with internal customers and external vendors.
• Understanding of Web Services/Restful API, SOA, XML/JSON.
• Full System Development Lifecycle experience
• Hybrid working model - 2 to 3 days in office.
• Oncall support during critical system failures.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Physical Requirements:
• The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
• While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
About Us
About Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions
Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions is a premier global transportation provider that delivers essential and innovative transportation, logistics and technology services to help companies and people move forward. With headquarters in Reading, PA, Penske and its associates are driven by a dedication to excellence and a commitment to customer success. Visit Go Penske to learn more.