Staff Engineer Software Eng

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not specified
• Job Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not specified

The Staff Engineer, Digital Development is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for designing, building, and maintaining complex enterprise-scale platforms and architectures. This position provides non-managerial leadership of an Information Technology technical team, including instructing, coordinating, directing, and reviewing the technical work of other team members. The role ensures Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and high-level architectural approaches are adhered to by implementation teams. Additionally, it leads continuous improvements to the team’s software development and/or operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical direction related to project deliverables for both onshore and offshore development team members.
• Reviews business requirements and technical analysis documentation to develop system implementation approaches designed to meet business objectives, while also consulting with Solution/Enterprise Architects.
• Maintains and utilizes expert knowledge of, and provides system support for at least two or more complex technical operating environments.
• Maintains code quality by leading code reviews and ensuring appropriate unit test coverage is in place.
• Contributes to project deliverables by performing system administration and/or software development tasks as needed.
• Provides input and feedback to team management for developers and analysts performance reviews and other hiring/promotion decisions.
• Provides Tier 2 and 3 support and resolution of open IT issues escalated by IT Customer Support.
• Reviews application performance metrics and consults with the development teams on enhancements opportunities.
• Oversees the development, configuration, coding, testing, and debugging of complex new software for the Digital Development teams.
• Leads the technical design and documentation of Republic Services’ Digital Platform, including: Angular, Node.js, Drupal, AWS, CI/CD.
• Leads and assists application programmers in defining applications system scope and objectives through research and fact finding.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated mastery of software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming methodologies.
• In-depth understanding of eCommerce application development and best practices around optimization and A/B/MVT testing.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Knowledge of Cloud architectures, services, and DevOps practices within Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, etc.
• Advanced proficiency with the following technologies:
  • Native JavaScript
  • Front end web technologies, including Angular, Node, Bootstrap/Material Design, CSS3 and HTML5
  • Web development tools and frameworks, including:
    • CSS preprocessing, e.g. LESS/SAAS
    • Front end build tools, e.g. Gulp, Grunt, Webpack
    • JavaScript testing frameworks, e.g. Jasmine, Karma
    • Front end components, e.g. Bower
    • JavaScript compression and minification, e.g. Uglify
    • Developer/Build tools, including GIT and Jenkins
    • Code analysis tools such as PMD, Checkstyle, Findbugs and Sonar.
• Experience consuming RESTful web services.
• Understanding of web performance optimization techniques.
• Experience integrating with Content Management Systems such as Drupal.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools, such as Solarwinds, vROPS, SPLUNK, TeaLeaf.
• Demonstrates accountability, sound decision making, analytical thoroughness, and clear and concise communications.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science.