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The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

• Perform analysis, design, development, and configuration functions (includes defining technical requirements) with a high degree of accuracy and speed, operating as an individual contributor to team goals.
• Perform analysis, assessment and resolution for defects and incidents of advanced complexity and escalate appropriately.
• Work independently to tackle well-scoped and loosely scoped problems.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced employees.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Four years of programming/development experience.

• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing (e.g., AWS (Serverless/EKS) and/or Azure)
• Proficiency with API development (e.g., REST and/or GraphQL)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK)
• Working knowledge of frameworks/libraries (e.g., React.js and/or Node.js.)
• Proven proficiency with scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or Python)
• Understanding of and experience with eventing systems (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience with relational databases, such as DB2, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with document databases, such as MongoDB and/or DynamoDB
• Coding Assistant Usage (e.g., familiarity with Claude and GitHub Co-Pilot)
• Experience with automated testing and unit testing (NUnit/XUnit, Moq, Jest, and Cypress)
• Proficiency with source control (Git/GitHub)
• Proven CI/CD experience (CloudBees Jenkins, Jenkins Open Source, and/or Azure DevOps)
• Understanding of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Experience with observability/monitoring platforms, such as Dynatrace, ELK stack, and OpenTelemetry
• Familiarity and experience working with Agile / Scrum methodologies and tools (Jira and Rally)
• Delivery - Intermediate delivery skills including the ability to estimate accurate timelines for tasks and deliver work at a steady, predictable pace to achieve commitments, contribute to the software design strategy and methodologies used to best meet the system requirements, consider and build for many different use cases, avoid over engineering, and ensure automation, deliver complete solutions but release them in small batches, and identify important tradeoffs and negotiate them.
• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including understanding technical concepts necessary to do the job effectively and aware of industry trends, demonstrate willingness, cooperation, and concern for business issues and priorities, and possess in depth knowledge of immediate systems worked on and some knowledge of adjacent systems.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who ensures solutions are built for the long term, is able to resolve new issues, recognizes mistakes using them as learning and teaching opportunities and consistently breaks down large problems into smaller, more manageable ones.
• Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to articulate information clearly and concisely with the business, document work in a clear, easy to follow manner, collaborate well with team members as both a mentor and mentee, take in vague requirements and ask the right questions to ensure clarification, offer feedback appropriately and effectively, seek out and receives constructive criticism well, listen when others are speaking and make space for colleagues to share their thoughts.
• Leadership - Intermediate leadership skills with the ability to help create a safe environment for others to learn and grow as engineers and a proven track record of self-motivation in identifying opportunities and tracking team efforts.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
• 4 additional years of software engineering experience.