Senior Staff Engineer (Java Backend)

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A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers—because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary:
Analyzes business requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs software systems.
Responsibilities
Requirements Analysis
· Understands, reads, and reviews requirements
· Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements
· Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements
Software Architecture
· Participates in architectural review process
Software Design
· Leads Features and multiple modules design and participates in overall product design
· Provides technical leadership to the team
· Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source (pivot points to Software Architecture job family)
Development/Coding
· Develops scripts and code for a feature and multiple modules and product
· Cross-technical integration
· Participates in peer reviews
· Adoption of standard coding processes
Testing
· Develops unit tests
· Fixes defects
· Develops test strategies
· Recommends testing frameworks
DevOps
· Defines roadmap of automation tools and its value to software engineering practices
· Drives infrastructure provisioning working with cross-domain teams and works on projecting future infrastructure capacity
· Takes accountability of the Design Reviews and deliverables
Software Reliability & Support Engineering
· Defines roadmap of production change control and its value to software engineering practices
· Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams
· Takes accountability of the Operational SLAs
· Debugs L2 and L3 incidents/problems
Customer/Stakeholder Engagement
· N/A
Technical Project Management
· Provides level of effort (LOE)
· Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule
· Provides status reports
· Defines and drives release management planning
R&D/Innovation
· Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies
· Influences senior management in setting the organization's technical objectives
· Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice
Qualifications
· 7+ years experience
· Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

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