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Springs Window Fashions is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer based in Long Island City, NY

The Best Experience Company 

Our tagline is "The Best Experience Company." More than just a set of words, it represents the essence of who we are at Springs Window Fashions. As North America's premier window covering company, we're committed to creating the Best Experience for our associates, consumers and end users, business partners, and communities. We want you to join our team of passionate self-starters who believe the world is full of Best Experience opportunities. So, if you're excited about the thought of a Best Experience career with a team focused on creating Best Experiences for all, we want to hear from you! 

Job SummaryReporting to the Engineering Manager, the Senior Software Engineer is a key part of the Product Development team supporting our world class SolarTrac shade automation solutions. As a member of this team, you will lead and collaborate on software development and support tasks including specification, technical design and development of application and service level, web-based, and cloud-based products. You will design and develop software-based tools for unit testing, UI testing, debugging and stress testing the software products. You will help quantify and develop voice of the customer requirements to ensure our solutions are well targeted. As a Senior Developer, you will provide technical leadership and mentor junior developers on the team.

Day-to-day activities will include liaising with the Tech Support team to validate reported problems, recreating those problems in the test lab, and working with the software team to identify the root cause and solution. Familiarity with software test tools such as Postman, Wireshark, and RealTerm is expected. You will be expected to design test protocols using scripting techniques to recreate real-world-like event sequences. A working knowledge of Angular, Golang, and TypeScript is required.

Additionally, knowledge of SQL databases, communication protocols, secure data exchange, and encryption concepts, including authentication, authorization, TLS/SSL, certificate management, and secure API communication, is required.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual base for this position is reasonably expected to be $130,000+ . Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is eligible for an annual bonus as well of up to 10%.  

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance,  vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with up to 5% company match of eligible contributions, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid sick time at an amount that meets or exceeds all local requirements, paid vacation time, paid holidays per year, and one paid volunteer day off per year.  

This posting is anticipated to remain open until a qualified candidate is hired.   

Education and Experience

• 6+ years pf experience overall software development experience (8+ years preferred)
• Back-End design experience with Delphi, C++, mySQL, Go, Visual Studio, Eclipse
• Front End GUI design experience a plus using HTML, CSS, React, Angular, JavaScript, jsNode, jQuery, AJAX
• Windows OS (all current versions)
• Linux OS (Ubuntu)
• Familiarity with security protocols (TLS, SSL, HTTPS)
• Ability to create testing protocols and frameworks

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Desire to lead and collaborate with Developers, Business Analysts, and QA testers
• Strong diagnostic skills and ability to research, troubleshoot, and logically determine solutions
• Ability to author, understand, and translate business-level acceptance criteria into technical designs

How We Work to Deliver a Best Experience: Our Culture

• Our Core Value: We do the right thing, always
• Our Seven Cultural Behaviors
• Empowerment - We trust our people.
• Ownership - We take 100% responsibility for our roles actions, and results.
• Leadership - We all lead by example and talk direct with respect (DWR).
• One Team - We are One Springs Team.
• Customer First - We consider our customers' needs before evry decision.
• Continuous Innovation - We are constantly learning, innovating, and improving.
• Speed - We define priorities and operate with a sense of urgency and agility.