Software Engineer - Specialist

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands‑on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading‑edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward‑thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

• Equifax has a hybrid work schedule that allows for 3 days onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) every week.
• This role reports to our office in Alpharetta, Georgia.
• This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.
• This is a direct-hire role and is not open to C2C or vendors.

• Deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures. Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners. Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed.
• Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters. Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, Dev Sec, and Fin Ops KPIs.
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
• Drive technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books. Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity.
• Implement architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Perform R&D, prototyping/PoC of cloud-native solution

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 7+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, Spring Boot, Type Script/JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• 7+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 7+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions
• 7+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, Spring Boot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• 7+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts
• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps
• Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets
• Working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, Big Query, Pub Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, Spring Boot, SOA and Microservices
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, Load Runner, SoapUI