Junior Software Engineer
Addison, IL

Job Description

Purpose:

Participate in software application development projects of all sizes. Implement scalable solutions for our public and consultant facing web sites, back-end tools, and APIs following agile development methodologies. Self motivated and directed, with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. Analytical and problem solving abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

* Work with team to execute on new market initiatives, continuously improving the codebase and processes of existing systems
* Write solid, maintainable, and testable code, paired with useful documentation
* Build and maintain scalable ecommerce APIs (e.g. shopping cart management, order management, etc.) that will support The Pampered Chef internal, consultant and .com facing set of tools
* Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
* Develop and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
* Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
* Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
* Provide production support to business users
* Verify integration test specifications to ensure proper testing

Measures of Success:

* Contribute to team improving velocity
* Contribute to team reducing the average ticket cycle time IN PROGRESS to RESOLVED
* Contribute to team delivering more story tickets
* Contribute to team reducing the amount of interruptions
* Work with team to deliver at least 90% story completion in a sprint

Education & Experience:

* Bachelor in Computer Science or related field
* 0-3 years of experience in building enterprise web applications leveraging object oriented/functional programming concepts.
* 0-2 years experience building applications using MEAN Stack, Angular 5 or a similar frontend framework
* 0-2 years experience designing and building APIs using REST/JSON
* 0-1 years experience with distributed, cloud-based systems and application design in a SOA environment using AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.) and Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
* 0-1 years database and caching experience, NoSQL and SQL (Elastic Search, MongoDB, Oracle)
* 0-1 years experience of building micro services using Node/Express, Typescript, RxJS
* Experience in responsive design using Bootstrap or other CSS frameworks a big plus
* Experience in CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Atlassian stack a big plus
* Experience with Google Analytics and metrics-based data analysis a plus.