Software Engineer II

Summary

Responsible for creating desired functionality to assigned content, products or services. Develops, tests and implements software that provides robust technical infrastructure and/or software applications used by business units.

The Software Engineer II will be a member of one of several cross‑functional development teams, ranging from 5 to 7 team members. This is a mid‑level position who will assist in various software development functions relating to products for internal and external customers.

Since 1913 we’ve been committed to supporting the Jewelry industry and putting customers at the center of everything we do. With over a century of trusted expertise, we’re financially strong, forward‑thinking, and driven by curiosity. Guided by our core values of Agility, Accountability, and Relevancy, we lead through innovation.

As a technology focused organization, we embrace cutting‑edge tools and data‑driven insights to continuously improve our products, services, and customer experience. Our mission is to be the industry’s most trusted advisor by investing in our people, adopting new technologies, and striving for excellence.

We’re dedicated to fostering growth through collaboration, powered by bold thinking, teamwork, and the passion of our people.

• Move fast and embrace change
• Always look for better ways
• Grow, thrive, and help shape what’s next

Join us and be part of a culture where you can make an impact while building your future.

• Supports a single product backlog
• Demonstrates knowledge of solutions within assigned domain, product or service
• Develops applications and the underlying framework
• Collaborates to evaluate application designs
• Implements, tests and delivers new features for multiple platforms
• Coordinates with QA team to initiate testing and ensure testing is completed
• May design framework and software standards and make suggestions for systems / software improvements
• Works to understand customer needs and usage of the product the team supports.
• Collaborates well with scrum team members on design and development ideas and concepts. Accepts feedback and challenges status quo.
• Recommends solutions based on established best practices
• Sees patterns and uses conceptual thinking to solve problems
• Work is more variable at this level; as such must collaborate with team and other SMEs to consider multiple options to solve problems.
• Has ability to identify processes that would result in reduced costs, increased efficiencies or closer alignment to company objective
• Proactively collaborate with team to make tactical decisions that translate into specific actions, with a goal of implementing MVP in the short term with an eye to long‑term objectives
• Issues not defined by best practices are escalated to senior team members or Management
• Mostly self‑sufficient and capable of working limited supervision
• Has an informed opinion and is able to articulate complicated technical issues to less technical management or leadership, or to less senior team members.
• Has a persuasive argument, but accepting of financial/time/other constraints that may impact decision making.
• Leads meetings with partners to gain alignment and understanding
• Promotes a mentor/mentee relationship with less experienced team members
• Creates and delivers presentations and communications to peers

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree (B.
  
  A.) from four‑year College or university;
• 2+ years of experience in software coding and development;
• Knowledge in problem solving, database, application servers, application design and testing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information to groups of internal and external project stakeholders, across all levels of the organization
• Strong understanding and knowledge of Lean/Agile best practices, Dev Ops, and has a history of supporting team…