Senior Software Engineer

Location: Cary NC (Onsite presence is required)

Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Support and conduct system/performance/volume/stress testing.

• Collaborate with business and/or UX team to create appropriate user interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups and user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into applications.
• Provide feedback to UX teams.

• Ensure the system can meet or exceed defined SLAs.
• When acting as the primary on‑call, respond to pages within 15 minutes and resolve or elevate issues as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolutions to appropriate stakeholders.

• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct analysis and design work.
• Prepare technical documentation.
• Estimate work effort (story pointing) and task‑out development effort for a given story or task.
• Follow the Railinc development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.

• Evangelize Railinc common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in a given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.
• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization – including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 7 years of Java experience.
• Comfortable with front‑end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Experience in front‑end technologies like Angular or equivalent.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot.
• Hands‑on experience building containerized applications;
  Kubernetes experience a plus.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, HTTP APIs, and managing REST services.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Experience with handling deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques etc.
• Experience working with AWS cloud native services like S3, Cloud Front, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route
  53 is a plus.
• Experience deploying application components in AWS EKS clusters.
• Experience using relational and No
  
  SQL databases. Experience with Aurora RDS, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB is a plus.
• Experience with security concepts such as handling JWT tokens and understanding OIDC flows.
• Experience working with messaging and MQ brokers is a plus.
• Experience in using Infrastructure‑as‑Code technology, like Terraform, is a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.

• Results: We deliver on our promises to create value for the freight rail industry through talented people, good ideas, business leadership and great technology.
• Collaboration: We collaborate with our teams and our customers to get the job done, respecting individual ideas and contributions, and moving forward in…