Staff Software Engineer

Description

• Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
• Provide technical leadership within a scrum team
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
• Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Work with UX Designers and Researchers in order to implement UI components, applications and meet user requirements base on UX specifications and user feedback
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
• Translate requirements / vision into prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards
• Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using technology chosen
• Be responsible and work within a team in charge of reusable UI component and services, in order to create a UI Design System to be used by all other engineering teams in Digital Grid
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness
• Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques

Requirements

• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Familiarity with performance profiling and identifying / addressing performance issues in the browser
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Conversant with OO Design Patterns - has experience with patterns such as singleton, decorator, pub-sub, factory, etc.
• Experience with mapping libraries preferred (OpenLayers, MapBox, Leaflet, etc.)
• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Skilled at object-oriented design and programming
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Experience with agile methodology, working with scrum teams during sprints
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, build tools like npm, and source control tools like git/github
• Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Experience with web front-end technologies such as typescript/javascript, HTML5, CSS, and frameworks like Angular, React, VueJS
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work
• Familiarity and experience writing UI mobile applications is a plus
• Experience with manual 2D graphics rendering (HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, etc.)
• Familiar with geospatial mapping concepts such as projections, coordinate transformations, geographic vs. schematic displays
• Experience with traditional programming languages preferred (C++, Java, C# .NET)
• Experience with graphics optimization techniques such as lazy evaluation, geometry caching, etc.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance