Software Engineer II

Software is about empowerment. Parchment is a company that is helping lifelong learners around the world to empower themselves to make the most of their academic achievements. As a Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a hand-picked team of talented, dynamic, and creative developers. Together you’ll create the SaaS services and platform that will help millions to change their lives.

Parchment actively seeks employees that are passionate about education, technology, and doing their very best every day. We have a culture of excellence and are transforming to a Dev Ops organization as we implement TDD/ATDD in our push towards Continuous Delivery. We employ technologies such as Micro Services, React/Redux, Docker, Terraform, Chef Automate, Open Stack and others and invest in the necessary training to master each.

Turns out when you hire excellent people, you end up with an excellent place to work. As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a team player. You’ll code alongside your team and other teams. You’ll envision the software stack from top to bottom. You’ll collaborate with Product Management, Product Development, Quality Assurance, Release Management, and Production Services.

Parchment is growing, and we want our top talent to grow with us. That’s why we invest time and energy in developing our employees. Parchment will invest in helping you develop the skills and provide opportunities for growth.

• Ability to work alongside high performing teams of software engineers delivering on strategic objectives with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Facilitate integration of SOA Infrastructure/Services (REST, SOAP, JMS), ESB and BPM systems into the overall operations and support framework
• Develop specifications, design documents, sample data, and unit tests.
• Write code, contribute to documenting specifications and knowledge sharing, unit tests, integration and functional tests and actively participate in design and code reviews.
• Work with team and stakeholders to deliver commitments in an agile process.
• Collaborate with the integration of test automation in software build and deployment processes.
• Work with Agile team members to analyze product requirements with the goal of increasing automated testability and decreasing risk.
• Collaborate with teams to develop effective application monitoring and reporting of automation test cycle results.
• Act as key knowledge resource for testing automation and train and support other team members as appropriate.
• Ability to become a subject matter expert and be able to educate others through mentoring and/or training.
• Communicate and support all product related information in a timely and professional manner as dictated by team need and testing processes.

The candidate must have 3 or more years of Java industry experience and be familiar with agile development.

• Experience with agile or other rapid application development methods (Continuous Delivery)
• Experience with Java
• Knowledge and experience in Spring and Spring boot development
• Expert understanding of and experience with MVC frameworks
• Proficiency in SQL, JPA/Hibernate. Schema design a plus.
• Use of Git, Maven, IntelliJ, and familiarity with continuous integration practices.
• Able to communicate and work effectively in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Knowledge of software quality assurance
• Awareness of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Experience with writing automated tests using a variety of tools and technologies
• Web application testing methods and tools such as Selenium Web-Driver, Cucumber
• Experience in web service testing automation tools such as SoapUI and Postman.
• US Citizenship or Permanent US Resident

• Bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience