Principal Software Engineer; C#​/SQL​/Azure

Principal Software Engineer (C#/SQL/Azure)

Information Technology |Irvine,California Plano,Texas

Responsible for delivering senior level innovative, compelling, coherent software solutions for our consumer, internal operations and value chain constituents across a wide variety of enterprise applications through the creation of discrete business services and their supporting components. This position has an emphasis either on the front-end or backend development focus depending on the placement of the role and team. The job duties and requirements are defined for backend and front-end separately This position ensures the performance of all duties in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures, all U.S. state and federal laws and regulations, wherein the company operates.

• Develops software:
  Designs and implements new technologies, frameworks and platform improvements. Subject-matter expert for platforms.
• Testing:
  Expert, builds happy-path and sad-path unit tests. Builds tests which validate key capabilities or fragile code. Builds automated functional and integration tests. Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and other testing methodologies. Creates testing strategy.
• Constructs web page HTML & CSS layout templates for use by UX/UI engineers.
• Works with the team’s graphic designers to obtain usable assets.
• Implements and/or stylizes controls both from scratch and from reference material.
• Maintains CSS application-wide.
• Participates in UI/UX testing.
• Designs, develops and delivers solutions that meet business line and enterprise requirements.
• Participates in rapid prototyping and POC development efforts.
• Advances overall enterprise technical architecture and implementation best practices.
• Assists in efforts to develop and refine functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participates in iteration and release planning.
• Performs functional and non-functional testing.
• Contributes to overall enterprise technical architecture and implementation best practices.
• Informs efforts to develop and refine functional and non-functional requirements.

• Development practices and methodologies:
  Deep experience with common development methodologies, including the pros and cons of each. Deep understanding of development methodologies including Agile, Spiral and Waterfall. Experience in one or more specific implementations such as Kanban, Scrum or Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Familiar with Agile scaling methodologies such as Scrum at Scale, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS). Has participated in Development Practice and Methodology development and implementation (an Agile transformation, for example).
• Leadership and
  
  Coaching:
  
  Creates a network of influence by building solid relationships with others. Proven success driving initiatives across multiple teams. Works with their mentor regularly. Actively mentors one or more colleagues. Helps to drive organizational change and improvement by actively looking for ways to be more efficient and work better together. Regular mentorship of one or more colleagues. Open to coaching, takes direction well.
• Relevant
  
  Languages:
  
  Expert competence with multiple relevant languages. 7+ years of experience.
• Analysis:
  Deep experience with advanced methods for analyzing information of almost any kind.
• Tool Knowledge: IDEs, editors, debuggers, open source and commercial alternatives, ORMs, code analysis, containers, VMs, cloud (AWS, Azure) etc. Has authored tools.
• Data Structures:
  Deep understanding of many data structures, including arrays, records, linked lists, dictionaries, heaps, graphs, hash tables, queues, etc. Understands how data structures impact performance, concurrency and other considerations. Knowledge of emerging structures and alternative ways to manage data (file streams, key/value pairs, blockchain, etc.)
• Algorithms:
  Deep understanding of many algorithms such as Bubble Sort, Binary Sort, Backtracking, Quicksort, Mergesort, Breadth/Depth First Searches, Divide and conquer, Tree Traversals, etc. Understands how algorithms impact performance, caching, memory utilization and other…