Bilingual (Japanese) - Software Engineer II

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibility

We are looking for a developer responsible for developing and maintaining POS and backend applications in our Retail sector. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications and deliver on-time with quality.

• Develop high quality software which meets requirements, promote re-use of software components and facilitates ease of support.
• Designs and implements new product features and implements modifications to existing product features to include technical documentation.
• Diagnose, isolate, and implement remedies for system failures caused by errors in software code.
• Conduct unit tests, track problems, and implement changes to ensure adherence to test plan and functional/nonfunctional requirements.
• Works with Customer Response Team members to resolve problems with released software.
• Exhibits very high personal commitment to quality, software engineering best practices, and protection of sensitive consumer information
• Attends daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, work estimates
• Provides input into and release management decisions
• Ability to drive issues to effective resolution and to find solutions to challenging, time-critical problems
• Identifies and implements process improvements in Engineering practices.
• Utilize software-based system maintenance and tracking tools.
• Provide input and technical content for technical documentation, user help materials and customer training.
• Analyze, design and implement software mechanisms to improve code stability, performance, and reusability. Participates and leads code review sessions.
• Applies good debugging and troubleshoot techniques to understand and resolve a defect found in software.
• Creates high quality documentation as required like functional specifications, component test specification and integration test specifications.
• Learns and applies test methodology, processes, procedures, standards and tools used by team and applies as and when required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 3 years development experience in Java. Spring, Hibernate.
• Must Have minimum Japanese language Proficiency ( JLPT N3 and Above)
• Good understanding of memory management
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
• Work well with a global, multi-located team.
• Whip-smart, endlessly curious and a born problem-solver
• Strong Web development skills.
• Strong understanding of Software Development and Quality Assurance best practices
• Strong troubleshooting techniques and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand business and technical requirements
• Ability to document the requirements inform of word document and/or UML diagrams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Retail Grocery POS solutions (payments, eWIC, loyalty, promotions, etc.)
• Experience with POS and Self-Checkout Integrations.
• Experience with Cloud development.
• Good to know the Japanese Language

Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job