Staff Backend Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC (NOW HIRING)

Location: Cary, NC or Remote

Essential Functions:

Quality:

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests
• Minimize the number of production escapes
• Support user acceptance testing
• Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing

Usability/User Experience:

• Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces
• Assist with mock-up's, user interface design
• Incorporate UX components into application
• Provide feedback to UX team

Product Reliability & Response:

• Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLA's
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders

Development:

• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met
• Conduct necessary analysis, design and prepare technical documentation
• Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story
• Follow the Railinc development process and suggest improvements
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications

Leadership (Technical):

• Evangelize Railinc common practices and development procedures
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities
• Mentor peers and junior developers
• Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed
• Drive innovation in the development, release and operations processes

Key Measures:

• Coverage, Production escapes
• Customer satisfaction score
• System SLA, # of outages
• Release scope, schedule, budget
• Releases

Values:

• Collaboration: We collaborate with our teams and our customers to get the job done, respecting individual ideas and contributions and moving forward in pursuit of shared goals.
• Results: We deliver on our promises to create value for the freight rail industry through talented people, good ideas, business leadership, and great technology.
• Service: We serve the changing needs of our customers and our industry to enhance the value they bring to our community, the environment and our economy.

Success Factors:

• Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load
• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff
• Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization – including documentation of application requirements
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively
• Ability to mentor others
• 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.
• Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands on experience in building docker applications.
• Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
• MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 2-3 years is a plus. If the candidate is just familiar with MQ or has minimal experience, needs to be really strong in specific front-end, backend technologies of Struts/Spring/hibernate.
• Expertise using Tomcat servers
• Experience with Agile software development methodology
• Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
• Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application trouble shooting techniques etc. too.
• Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53 will be a plus
• Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues will be a plus
• Experience in using Aurora RDS for database will be a plus

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience
• (OR)
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work: assignment involves sitting at workstation (desk) most of the time (up to 8 hours) with only occasional walking and/or standing
• Keyboarding: Primarily using fingers for typing
• Talking: Expressing or communicating verbally through use of spoken words (accurately conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others)
• Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations