Sr. Engineer, Software

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for all aspects of the development of platforms and applications. This is a highly skilled hands‑on role requiring extensive proficiency involved in all aspects of the development of cloud-based software solutions. Subject to their specialization, this Senior Software Engineer leads the design, development, testing, publishing, and/or support of different cloud-based products and solutions and serves as subject‑matter expertise for customer implementation and cloud platform support.

The Senior Software Engineer works closely with a global team of engineers to build robust solutions that meet our business objectives following continuous integration and continuous deployment processes, while supporting software and associate software engineers. Additionally, this role provides recommendations to management as to process, technologies, or other improvements intended to benefit productivity, efficiency and/or quality of the solutions developed by the team and leads the implementation of new solutions.

• Ongoing evaluation (test) of feature design – proactively work with others to identify issues or potential risk areas with the architecture and performance
• Distill requirements from feature level into implementation level tasks
• Develop features using best practices and ensure it fits with the architecture for the product
• Ensure the right work is being done - ensure product qualities such as unit tests, automation, throughput, capacities, security & performance will be sufficient
• Ensure design and implementation work meets the stakeholder’s requirements
• Ensure that the feature design is correct for operations, as well as deployment and sustainability
• Support departmental and team initiatives
• Work with Team Technical Architect and Lead to define, document, and communicate coherent feature design
• Communicate relevant risks and issues to Team Lead and other relevant team members inside and/or outside the team
• Provide technical leadership to less experienced members of the team – mentor, coach, continuous improvement
• Take responsibility for technical implementation and decision making including the delivery of features
• Identify, monitor and resolve feature related issues; elevate if individual resolution is not possible
• Review documentation and guides created by more junior members of the team
• Guide Software Engineers on how to create sufficient, complete documentation and guides that help onboard new people to the team
• Ensure stakeholders understand feature architecture
• Maintain communication with stakeholders and ensure changes to any previously agreed solutions are communicated; understand evolutionary paths
• Work with assigned partners to ensure an effective and productive relationship, both within the product house and the wider regional Verint support organization.
• Prioritize and resolve technical problems and assist others with the same
• Ensure the prioritization of scope (including defects) is understood
• Understand the development process and suggest improvements to it
• Identify areas of technical risk in a feature and options to de‑risk
• Support opportunities to address technical debt as part of a release
• Support the design process and ensure it complies with product architecture
• Support planning as regards estimates, dependencies, risk areas, and sequencing tasks

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / software engineering (or similar)
• 5 years' experience in design and programming large scale applications through all phases of the software development life cycle including testing, implementation and auditing
• Proven track record of delivery of complex features end-to-end
• Experience mentoring mid to entry level engineers and influencing technical direction within a cross-functional squad
• Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JPA/Hibernate)
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth 2.0/JWT, and microservices patterns
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MS SQL, Oracle) including schema design and query optimization. Solid exposure to No
  
  SQL stores (Redis, Elasticsearch,…