Digital Engineer

Posted:
8/29/2024, 12:37:59 AM

Location(s):
Ohio, United States ⋅ Columbus, Ohio, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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The Digital Software Engineer at Safelite focuses on building and maintaining digital experiences (websites and mobile apps) for clients and consumers.

They actively participate in project planning, collaborate with business and IT teams, and ensure timely task completion. Additionally, they prioritize work based on roadmap and tactical needs while refining requirements to meet project goals.

The ideal candidate possesses experience in developing software products across the entire stack and has a solid grasp of application technologies, including Object Oriented Programming, web frameworks, APIs, and databases. They will leverage technology to address challenges in both front-end and back-end architecture while ensuring exceptional user experiences.


What You'll Do

  • Participates in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment.
  • Works primarily in C#, .NET and JavaScript.
  • Reads specifications and writes code and unit tests using patterns and languages approved by Technical Lead and Architect; adheres to best practices and end-user requirements.
  • Collaborates with Product Owner, UX, analysts, QA, and other software engineers to make changes to an application for defect fixes, enhancements, and new features; demonstrates business knowledge by actively participating and providing relevant suggestions and insight.
  • Participates in the design process that generates application functional and technical specifications (JAD, Three Amigos).
  • Refactors code related to current work - optimization, restructuring, improved readability, reduced complexity, and improving unit tests.
  • Performs system analysis for current state application operation and upcoming application enhancements.
  • Actively participates in Scrum ceremonies, estimation, and team meetings.
  • Documents application design specifications and implementation procedures to improve application quality and reuse of code.
  • Reviews other developers' pull requests for approval or suggest improvements.
  • Performs production support or on-call operations through monitoring, notification and job/service management.
  • Improves monitoring and alerting for applications to improve support response and operations.
  • Develops proof of concepts (POC) to evaluate new solutions and technology.
  • Investigates incidents and defects in current state application to identify fixes.
  • Participates in root cause analysis (RCA) with other teams after production incidents to determine improvements.
  • Develops implementation plans, deployment plans, and release/change plans; validates production changes after release.
  • Implements tooling to report and improve security, unit test coverage, and other factors.
  • Ensures security guidelines, compliance, and other business standards are followed to support the application.
  • May assist in training and on boarding of new developers.


What You'll Bring

  • 3+ years of experience with building large-scale software applications, lifecycle and implementation methodologies.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience with C#, .NET, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
  • Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs.
  • Knowledge of Databases and SQL programming
  • Knowledge of Vue.JS/Bootstrap or comparable frameworks.
  • Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
  • Experience in unit/integration testing.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of cloud-based platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Experience working on agile/scrum teams.

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Benefit amounts are estimates only. Actual values will depend on benefit elections during enrollment.

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodation will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job's essential duties because of an ADA disability. Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws and regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

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