Senior Software Engineer

NOTE: U.S. Citizens, and those authorized to work in the U.S (without Sponsorship) are encouraged to apply.

• Lead the design and development process and projects for the SaaS utility billing application.
• Collaborate with product management on solidifying requirements to facilitate rapid prototypes, proofs of concept & user interface demonstrations of potential new capabilities for the SaaS application.
• Continually assess the performance of critical application components and formulate refactor plans to optimize them to assure maximum performance and scalability.
• Work in partnership with the entire engineering team to drive the development effort for End-to End continuous integration and continuous delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to feature requirements conditions of acceptance (COA).
• Contribute to architecture design and code reviews for all key application functional components.
• Serve as a trusted SME and team mentor by providing critical thinking and guiding technical innovation and attention to detail.
• Promote a responsive mentality to deliver high-quality solutions via an agile development methodology and collaborate with team members to improve the SaaS application and development processes iteratively
• Champion root-cause-analysis (RCA) and corrective action initiatives to identify, isolate, and prevent recurrence of problems
• Help stakeholders troubleshoot application issues through scheduled support rotations.
• Maintain source with git/GitHub
• Support and improve process management and ticketing using tools such as JIRA and Zendesk.
• Support and improve code quality, deployment, and integration using RuboCop, CircleCI, Capistrano, and other tools Competencies:
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional teamwork and independent technical and problem-solving decision-making skills
• Ability to coach junior engineers on how to write clean, readable, and optimized code
• Evangelize adherence to source control management with git and Jira
• A passion for working collaboratively with software development engineers, QA, product management, and stakeholders
• A subject matter expert (SME) regarding every element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including ideation, prototyping, deployment, enhancements, training, support, and maintenance/refactoring.

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or possess equivalent work experience.
• Extensive experience supporting the lifecycle of a complex enterprise application, preferably a commercial utility billing software platform, ERP platform or accounting system.
• 5+ years of experience with full-stack programming and web technologies required -HTML5, Python, JavaScript, PHP, Java, Groovy, CSS, JQuery, and SQL database programming
• Demonstrated experience being a technical leader in an Agile software engineering environment that includes Test Drive Development, (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using RSpec
• Demonstrated experience working with REST APIs and back-end asynchronous messaging technologies
• Experience with multiple object-oriented programming languages, Model-View-Controller (MVC), Mocking, and Object-Relational-Mapping, (ORM)
• Experience deploying scalable commercial SaaS environments using Apache, SQL, Redis.
• Experience designing and tuning complex relational database schemas
• Expertise with containerized environments such as Docker, Container or Kubernetes Preferred Education and Experience:
• Experience architecting, designing and developing Ruby on Rails software applications.
• Skilled with RuboCop and automated testing tools such as Selenium
• Experience deploying scalable commercial SaaS environments using Ruby app servers