Software Engineer #1066849
Position Description:    
Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs.
They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements.
Full-stack software engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Engage with customers to deeply understand their use-cases, pain points, and requirements, showcasing empathy and advocating for user-centric software solutions
2. Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, methodologies (like agile) and technologies
3. Assess the requirements of the software application or service and determine the most suitable technology stack, integration method, deployment strategy, etc.
4. Create high-level software architecture designs that outline the overall structure, components, and interfaces of the application
5. Collaborate with cross functional teams like product owners, designers, architects etc.
6. Define and implement software test strategy, guidelines, policies and processes in line with organization vision, industry regulations and market best practices.
7. Work on continuously improving performance and optimizing the application and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
8. Familiar with programming practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
9. Support security practices to safeguard user data including encryption and anonymization.
10. Create user-friendly and interactive interfaces
11. Develop and maintain back-end applications like APIs and microservices using server-side languages
12. Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies and capabilities to deliver their solutions, and are monitoring and participating in solutions for new stack layers, often involving industry collaboration    

Skills Required:    
Mainframe DB, Full Stack Java Developer    

Skills Preferred:    
GCP    

Experience Required:    
Senior Engineer Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.; guides. 10+ years in IT
8+ years in development    

Education Required:    
Bachelor's Degree    

Additional Information:    
- Develops software with a paired partner to deliver user stories that contribute to a valuable working software product.
- Develops automated unit tests with working software, to confirm software functionality conformance to functional and non-functional requirements.
- Develops automated functional tests to confirm user story acceptance and to detect regression defects.
- Performs exploratory testing to confirm application execution and to identify software deficiencies not covered by automated testing.
- Reviews continuous integration build status and fixes build failures.
- Improves continuous integration tooling by automating manual processes within the delivery pipeline and improving quality gates based on past learnings.
- Reviews ongoing production software operations and troubleshoots production issues.
- Implements tooling that monitors application performance metrics and automatically notifies team when a failure occurs in production.
- Active participant in all team agile ceremonies:
- Actively manages the long-term delivery roadmap of the software product.
- Organizes team learning events.
- Provides input to product governance communications

Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and maintaining payroll-related applications
- Building and optimizing front-end interfaces using Angular
- Developing backend services and APIs in Java
- Deploying and managing applications on GCP
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (HR, Payroll, IT Ops) to support global payroll processes
- Troubleshooting and resolving production issues
- Ensuring system scalability, security, and compliance with payroll regulations across regions