Software Engineer

Software Engineer 13471

A leading professional networking company is seeking a Software Engineer. The successful candidate will develop and operate mission-critical services and applications that are used customers and employees worldwide. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of software engineering experience. The company offers a great work environment!

Software Engineer Pay and Benefits:

• Hourly pay: $70-$80/hr
• Worksite: Leading professional development and networking company (Mountain View, CA 94041 or Sunnyvale, CA - Hybrid)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• 40 hours/week, 6 Month Assignment

Software Engineer Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical design, implementation, and deployment of software solutions.
• Coordinate and lead cross-functional teams, ensuring that projects are successfully executed meeting our standards for quality software engineering.
• Design and ship high volume of elegant code with the foresight to avoid performance, scalability, usability, maintainability, availability and testability issues.
• Maintain an understanding of the latest technologies and tools and leverage them to improve existing products and services.
• Identify opportunities within the team for potential leverage and reuse by developing libraries, APIs, and shared services.
• Assist in the onboarding and ramp-up of new engineers.
• Contribute towards the definition of product and technical roadmaps.

Software Engineer Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of Python experience.
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience developing mobile applications a bonus.
  
• Proven track record of developing large-scale highly available services and systems in either Java or Python.
• Working experience in the development as well as consumption of Web Services APIs (JSON / XML / RPC).
• Working experience of build systems, databases, and Linux-based infrastructures.
• Working Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, etc.) would be preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• Demonstrated understanding of architectural models and the technology stack used for developing highly scalable and highly available web applications and systems.
• Demonstrated communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Understanding of Agile Software Development methodologies.