About
Greatcall
Job Description
POSITION : Senior Software Engineer
DEPARTMENT : Software Engineering
REPORTING SUPERVISOR : Manager, Software Team Development
DIRECT REPORTS : No
FLSA : Exempt
EMPLOYMENT STATUS : Direct Hire
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS : Not applicable
SCHEDULE : Standard business hours
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Software Engineering team operates in a tight-knit, collaborative environment. IT, Systems Development, Product Management, Customer Care, Marketing & Direct Sales all work closely together to align on creating value through health and wellness products and services. We also strive to maintain a strong bond and trust between our internal teams (architecture, development, test, configuration, operations, etc). We encourage each other to work together and help one another make our work life at GreatCall more satisfying and rewarding. This is a team that constantly looking for ways to improve our development operations through people, process, and technology. The team also fosters a culture of innovation and encourages everyone to contribute through new ideas and insights.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a senior member of the software development team you will help lead efforts in the areas of enterprise software design and development. You will be counted on for complex problem solving as well as encouraged to recommend solutions. You will have the unique opportunity to make a difference in people's lives, developing and optimizing applications in support of health, wellness, and emergency response systems. Our customers and their loved ones come to depend on our products and services every day. Your job will be critical to our success in meeting their needs!
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Lead the design and development of enterprise Web and N-Tier applications
* Work closely with product owners and teams to lead feature implementation and source third party solutions when appropriate
* Coach and mentor mid-level Software Engineers
* Implement and uphold standards and best practices around development processes, coding, and peer reviews
* Optimize existing systems to improve performance and scalability through service/application tuning and code refactoring
* Fully and properly test code to ensure the highest levels of reliability and maintainability
* Research and recommend software solutions and tools that help fix inefficiencies in the development process, team collaboration, etc
* Help lead and drive development operations initiatives
* Provide assistance to IT, CM, QA and support personnel as needed to troubleshoot lower environment as well as production issues.
* Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Experience:
Required :
* Minimum of 5 years of experience developing object-oriented applications
* Prior experience with database design and technologies
* Prior experience coaching/mentoring other engineers
* Prior experience with unit testing
* Prior experience with writing and interacting with Web Services (REST/SOAP APIs)
* Prior experience with source control solutions such as Git or Mercurial
* Prior experience using SQL or NOSQL databases
Preferred
* Prior experience design and developing mobile apps or public facing web sites preferred
* Prior experience with design patterns and application preferred
* Prior experience with unit testing methods and test driven development preferred
* Prior experience working on teams using Agile methodologies preferred
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
* Familiarity with continuous delivery, processes, DevOps tools, Git preferred
* Skilled in technical spec, documentation writing, code commenting
* Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
* Familiarity with Service Oriented Architecture
About Greatcall
GreatCall provides mobile health and safety solutions for older adults and their family caregivers.