IT Senior Software Engineer; Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Immigration sponsorship will not be offered for this position. Applicants requiring visa sponsorship will not be considered.

Eversource supports work‑life balance with hybrid schedules, requiring at least three days in the office with flexibility for a fourth day and the ability to work five days if necessary.

• Designing and delivering scalable applications for operational systems.
• Translate business needs into robust technical solutions within Agile teams.
• Collaborate with architects, database, and infrastructure teams to drive optimal designs.
• Lead development, ensuring quality, security, and performance standards.
• Act as SME, owning key application components and mentoring team members.
• Support end‑to‑end delivery including design, documentation, and go‑lives.
• Contribute to RFPs, solution selection, and vendor engagement.
• Drive automation, innovation, and continuous improvement across systems.

• Design and develop applications that support operational processes and business functions.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Apply Agile methodologies to deliver high‑quality solutions with iterative improvements.
• Collaborate closely with architects, database engineers, and infrastructure teams to design optimal system solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, performance, and security standards.
• Create and maintain detailed technical design and specification documentation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, system optimization, and innovation initiatives.
• May manage moderately sized projects or processes.
• Typically viewed as subject‑matter expert within discipline.
• Has advanced to expert knowledge of work area.
• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower‑level professionals; mentors lower‑level engineers.
• Influences others regarding policies, practices, and procedures.
• Works to achieve day‑to‑day objectives with significant impact on work area.
• Contributes to the development of goals of the discipline and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.).
• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of work area.
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own discipline.
• May have responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors).
• Owns functional area; major portion of application development architecture, such as entire Front‑End or Back‑End.
• Participates in the end‑to‑end RFP process, from drafting requirements to product/System Integrator selection.

Technical Knowledge/Skill:

• Ability to analyze business and technical requirements, identify gaps, ask clarifying questions, and translate requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Independently scopes and implements larger user stories for their project/team within an Agile delivery model.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices and tools such as Jira or Azure Boards.
• Makes well‑reasoned software design decisions, identifying risks, trade‑offs, and appropriate abstractions (research spikes, ADRs).
• Strong hands‑on experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, participating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand‑ups, and retrospectives.
• Strong hands‑on experience in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
• Proficiency with JSON and XML.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and integration fundamentals.
• Experience with Oracle and relational database design and tuning.
• Experience in configuring and integrating COTS products.
• Experience supporting production deployments and go‑live activities, including stabilization.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and cloud‑native design concepts.
• Proficiency with Git Hub (or equivalent) for version control and collaboration.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, database, and infrastructure teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices,…