Sr Software Engineer – Backend

Company Description

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Job Description

PS : Please look someone with Product Development Background 

Role : 

The Predix Platform Engineering team is looking for Sr Software Engineer with experience building and supporting high-performance, scalable, and secure data services and associated components; strong communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities

You will be accountable for building and supporting a wide range of data services for the Predix platform for the Industrial Internet. 

We are looking for smart, enthusiastic, and friendly technologists to design, build, support, and grow the tools our developers and customers use nearly every minute of their day. You’ll help us design and build the ecosystem of tools that support GE Predix Platform’s developer community. You will also be a critical part of that community as we apply the same discoveries and innovations that go into our software to our own systems.

In this role, you will:

Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast-paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure 

Provide technical leadership to an agile team of 5-7 

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 with product line leaders and architects to develop multi-generation software technology plans 

Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse 

Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities 

Coach, mentor and lead the team 

Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables 

Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products 

Communicate effectively both within immediate team and also across SSG leadership team and with PLLs 

Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results 

Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge 

Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques 

Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project 

Understand performance parameters and assess application performance 

Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using technology chosen 

Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness 

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or Minimum of 8 years of experience in building large-scale, enterprise-wide applications 

A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in building large-scale, enterprise-wide applications OR Master’s degree with 3 years of experience building large-scale, enterprise-wide applications 

Desired Characteristics

• Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles 
• Committed to TDD methodology and XP programming techniques 
• Experience with Core Java development and Go (Golang) 
• Contributed to or maintain open source projects 
• Hands-on experience in web services (REST, SOAP, OAuth etc.), using Apache Commons Suite & Maven, SQL databases such as Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL etc., and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Riak, Couchbase etc. 
• Hands-on experience in utilizing Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Integration and Data) 
• Experience stream processing engines like Storm, Spark Streaming etc. preferred 
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms. 
• Experience with Big Data / Hadoop and NoSQL databases is a big plus 
• Knowledge of or experience with running applications on Cloud Foundry 
• Knowledge of or experience with building service brokers on Cloud Foundry 
• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments 
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions 
• Able to work under minimal supervision 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

Additional Information

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS

DURATION: 6-12 months

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