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 offer 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 and building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including product, business and sales partners.
• 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 solutions.
• Design and develop cloud‑native solutions. Design and development of big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, Big Query, Pub Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others. Design and development of micro services using Java, Springboot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes.
• Deploy and release software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure‑as‑code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs.

• 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, understanding 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.
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, Spring Boot, SOA and Microservices.
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Git Hub) 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 Git Hub).
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+).
• Utilizing GenAI/Agentic tools like Copilot/Claude Code to improve and boost productivity.