Software Engineer

Who are you?

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:

• Design, code, and test new platform components, features, and enhancements for our web platform (Java/Kotlin)
• Investigate and troubleshoot complex issues across our platform
• Support the team leads from an engineering perspective during sprint grooming, planning, and kick-off to help estimate stories, raise awareness and additional implementation details
• Monitor and enhance platform performance tools in production
• Ability to lead in software architecture discussions and actively contribute to technical discussions
• Help to prioritize development user stories
• Mentor and assist other engineers
• Demonstrates ownership for development across team and other cross-functional teams
• Ability to lead in identifying and resolving production issues
• Help Identify and come up with strategies to resolve technical debt
• Create user stories to resolve production issues, technical debt, and opportunities for improvement

What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team:

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• Ability to go beyond the functional solution to build maintainable and well-tested code
• Ability to partner closely with product managers to refine the product
• Strong communication skills, openness to collaborate, and enthusiasm to deliver as a part of a team
• A passion and drive for learning technologies and recommend how to apply them pragmatically
• An ability to lead a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

• 4+ years in SW development role
• Fluency in Java/Kotlin (or similar)
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of object-oriented programming
• Experience developing services and APIs for web and mobile apps
• Ability to articulate and champion design strategies related to scalability, maintainability, performance, security, and usability
• A solid understanding of best practices for software development including testing, monitoring, and design