Java Software Engineer

Title - Java Software Engineer

Location - Urbandale, IA

Description : Major Purpose :

Major Purpose :

Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver moderately complex functionality on a complete product or significant portion of a product it supports.

This level develops simple designs to solve well-defined problems with guidance from more senior team members. May assign, coordinate and review portions of the work to support personnel;

Makes decisions within established guidelines subject to review by supervisors; Executes high level applications to more complex problems.

Major Duties :

• Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
• Evaluates and implements enhancement design solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications.
• Analyzes assignments and determines software specifications that must be fulfilled to achieve objectives.
• Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed.
• Collaborates with other relevant stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs.
• Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation. Skills, Abilities, Knowledge :
• Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation. ?

Ability to apply engineering principles and concepts for designs.

• Ability to manage many competing priorities / requests in a fast-paced environment Education :
• Degree in an Engineering / Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience :

• Previous experience in programming / software development. (1 - 3 years)
• Software development processes experience. (1 - 3 years)
• Participating in Agile Development (1 - 3 years)
• Experience working in an Agile Environment (1 - 3 years)

We'd like someone who can be on site in Urbandale 3 days a week (T / W / TH). Worker should be comfortable working in a paired programming environment and be an excellent communicator.

High priority given to soft skills such as self-driven and takes initiative.

Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver functionality for the complete product or products it supports.

Most important technical skills are Java and AWS.

3 - 6 years) Experience in programming / software development (Java (90%), NodeJS (8%), Scala (2%))

3 - 6 years) Product design, test and / or analysis experience

3 years) Experience hosting services in AWS cloud technologies

3 years) Ability to manage many competing priorities / requests in a fast-paced environment

3 years) Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with tact and negotiation