Sr Software Engineer
Join us at Oriental Trading, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, where fun means business!
General Summary of Purpose:
As our Sr Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Architecting and developing work on tasks with an emphasis on low defect rates, unit testing, and agile sprint goals
- Working closely with IT Managerment to provide cutting-edge solutions to meet business units’ needs, conduct research, and develop solutions
- Maintaing and upgrading our external ecommerce websites, third party integrations for order flow, and internal configurations and tools used to run the day to day business
- Potential to lead a development team on large scale projects in a rotating schedule
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Act as a consultant to Oriental Trading Company business units to provide solutions to complex business issues through the following tasks:
- Research, develop, and implement cutting edge technical solutions
- Perform due diligence with internal customers
- Recommend business system functionality
- Assist in developing business requirements
- Assist in developing business cases
- Implement complex projects through:
- Create and interpret complex design documents independently and communicate them to team members as necessary
- Design unit tests to thoroughly test all code changes
- Conduct code reviews thoroughly and provide feedback when applicable
- Create or update code to meet requirements of security scan findings
- Assist in functional systems issues to determine root cause and solution
- Debug and quality check software and serve as an escalation point for more complex issues
- Participate in regularly rotated on-call duties: While on call; must be available 24 hours/day to receive calls from Operators/Users, investigate and solve issues
- Maintain regular and predictable attendance
- Abide by all policies and procedures of Oriental Trading Company
- Must be able to attend face to face meetings on short or little advance notice
- Work requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors
Marginal Functions
- Participate with team members in priority planning: estimating resource requirements, project planning and scheduling for programming projects
- Assist other team members with system and technical knowledge
- Performs other duties and projects as assigned
Here’s what you need to join the fun:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Understand generally accepted analysis and design techniques of Java
- Strong knowledge of application development and maintenance for interactive and batch programming
- Knowledge of Linux servers and how to navigate directories and search logs
- Expert knowledge of Java EE technologies (ranging from EJB to JSP)
- Basic understand of AWS tools like EC2, S3, and scalability
- Strong knowledge of Postgress DB or Oracle DB (10g or higher preferred)
- Must possess communication skills (written and verbal) that will help in determining customer’s or user’s exact needs and in disseminating that information to appropriate personnel
- Expert knowledge of dump analysis techniques
- Expert in testing techniques and knows all testing requirements of systems supported
- Must become proficient in the daily operations at Oriental Trading Company
- Able to work under pressure, meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to interface with customers, clients and other departments to respond to requests both in written and verbal form
- Note: Skills required for a development role which is primarily RPG focused
- Strong knowledge of PDM, SEU, PFE, Job Scheduler, MKS Implementer™, FTP, TAATOOLS, APIs, or equivalent
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication or closely related field required
Experience
- Minimum five years of experience with application development, software QA, or related field
All work and no play just isn’t our style. Join us today!
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Oriental Trading Company (www.orientaltrading.com), is the nation’s largest direct retailer of value-priced party supplies, arts and crafts, toys and novelties, and a leading provider of teaching supplies and affordable home décor and giftware. Founded in 1932 by a Japanese American, the Oriental Trading' history of fun spans the better part of the last century. Today, Oriental Trading offers more than 60,000 products to individuals, teachers, schools, churches, businesses and nonprofits. With a corporate vision to “Make Life More Fun,” Oriental Trading (a Berkshire Hathaway company) spreads joy and smiles to millions each year through a robust family of brands; Oriental Trading, Fun Express, MindWare, SmileMakers, Morris Costumes and halloweenexpress.com.
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