Job Summary:

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership to a small team(s) of software engineers. Project teams are focused on developing new software functionality for our web-based eCommerce product, our web-based service offerings or our server-based transaction processing systems. This role is a senior technical position within our engineering organization. He or she will be responsible for major technical decisions and directing project work at a technical level.

Reports to:

Engineering Team Leader/Manager

Essential Job Functions and Leadership Responsibilities:

• Leadership (40%)
  • Provide overall technical direction for a small project team, directing the efforts of engineers working on one or multiple concurrent projects.
  • Provide leadership in areas of good software engineering process and SDLC.
  • Identify and evangelize new development processes that improve the predictability and quality of projects.
  • Mentor junior engineers when they encounter complex problems.
  • Provide high-level technical analysis as new projects go through the ideation phase.
  • Work with project manager to estimate and plan execution of projects while accommodating technical and business needs
  • Provide status of technical deliverables to project manager and engineering manager.
  • Organize R&D projects that leverage the power of the team.

• Software Architecture and Design (30%)
  • Understand system architecture and the integration of new functionality.
  • Provide architecture and design framework for smaller projects.
  • Provide designs for more complex aspects of projects.
  • Communicate architecture and designs to project team members.
  • Review designs produced by junior engineers to verify conformity to overall guidelines.
  • Act as a technical leader across Engineering as a proponent for good architecture and design, and an advocate for architecture standards.

• Software Implementation (20%)
  • Implement complex software components for projects using technologies such as C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, JavaScript, Angular JS, and other web development tools.
  • Use the Scrum development process to deliver software solutions.
  • Review software components produced by other software engineers.
  • Coordinate integration testing and debugging of software components.
  • Work closely with testing teams to understand results and to coordinate bug fixes.
  • Prepare release plans for software releases to production.

• Support (10%)
  • Find and fix bugs in released software.
  • Collaborate with junior engineers to assist in defect analysis and debugging.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or software engineering
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced software development skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of good design concepts for all levels in a web-based architecture

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in a Microsoft environment
• Knowledge of C#, ASP, SQL and TFS
• Knowledge or experience with open source in multiple languages
• Experience using Scrum methodology

Competencies:

• Approachability
• Customer Focus
• Developing Direct Reports and Others
• Integrity and Trust
• Decision Quality
• Managerial Courage
• Personal Learning
• Creativity
• Drive for Results
• Business Acumen
• Organizing
• Process Management