IT Application Engineer

Overview

Applications Engineer Onsite in Foster City, CA | 4 days in office; 40 hour work week but must be open to flexible hours (i.e. weekends).

This position is on the IT Applications team responsible for our client's Application Lifecycle Management Apps support and configuration. This individual will work with a team of automotive engineers and IT infrastructure engineers to customize, maintain and advance our ALM applications.

• Work with stakeholders on features, upgrades, migrations, and integrations
• Monitor application performance via established practices and methods
• Manage workflows, change management, Approvals and signoff and in-application configurations to meet stakeholder needs
• Evaluate new tools and services with Development and support of custom integrations using Java and Python
• Updating template/project configurations, workflows, and work item meta data
• Developing dashboards and Live Reports that support engineering and management needs using Velocity and Java script
• Act as escalation point for Client Services team (helpdesk)
• Collaborate with other members of the team

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Development experience in Java, Java script, Velocity and Python
• Experience using Polarion within a regulated industry (medical device, aerospace, financial, automotive, etc) preferred, but not required.
• Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Flexibility, willingness to learn, and a demonstrated ability to come up to speed quickly on new technologies and technical issues
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience with SQL/No
  
  SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres)