Software Engineer - Full Stack (React & Node)

 

Job Description

 

TITLE                   : Full Stack Developer, Software Engineering

Experience         : 3 – 5 years

DEPARTMENT   : Innovation Technology

 

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

The Innovation Technology (IT) group works on creating applications that wow our clients and (internal/external) business partners. Geographically spread across multiple offices, the IT group works seamlessly as a single unit to deliver applications and services to our business on a 24X7 basis.

 

ACCOUNTABILITIES

 

The ideal candidate would have the following:

• Collaborate regularly and effectively with product owners, engineers, architects, and product design to understand requirements, implement solutions, and evaluate success.
• Evaluate the feasibility of proposed work with product owners, architects, and designers.
• Demonstrate general knowledge all products and the platform and how they fit into the overall system.
• Provide technical expertise while planning to help clarify requirements, plan out potential implementations, and measure success.
• Support the team(s) in delivering quality features, debugging, and incident responses.
• Work with the product leadership team to define goals with measurable key performance indicators.
• Lead the team(s) in defining, documenting, and evolving best practices.
• Seek and be receptive to feedback and coaching from the team(s).
• Hands-on experience with building world-class web applications, especially single-page apps
• Offers demos, code reviews, and recommendations to help the team and others be more productive and deliver a better product
• Advise and consult in hiring and advancement.
• Evaluate team members’ skills and provide resources for improvement.
• Set and strive toward reaching professional development goals.
• Adhere to and be an example of Berkadia values

 

QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong knowledge of coding in multiple languages.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Expert in one or more areas of web, data, or systems programming.
• Understands design patterns, scaling, reliability, and maintenance trade-offs.
• Extremely proficient with various backend/frontend web development technologies (NodeJs, MYSQL, ReactJs, Any JavaScript, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices,)
• Strong knowledge of testing software from unit to integration testing as well as familiarity with TDD concepts.
• Proficiency delivering solutions in an Agile and Scrum based iterative delivery model.
• Collaborate effectively on projects with technical and non-technical team members.
• Help the teams by reducing technical Debt via constant code refactoring.
• Mentoring the project team with interpersonal communication, technical practices, etc.
• Experience with teams spread across multiple locations across multiple time zones.
• Must be willing to dive into software environments and technical issues.
• Strong leadership, time management, problem solving skills and resource administration.
• A strong desire and ability to learn quickly.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Listens and values others’ input.

Behaviors

• Strong people orientation
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to work in an environment with high degree of ambiguity (previous start-up like experience could be helpful)
• Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership.
• Effectively lead a team environment.

Interpersonal skills

• Passionate, Self-motivated and driven, with keen attention to detail, action-and-results oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills as well as strong logical, analytical, problem solving skills and reporting skills.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Able to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Experience with in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.