Senior Software Engineer

Job Description Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware.

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering

The technologies involved include C, C++, Java, Borland C++, Visual Studio, and others.

Job Overview:

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and provide feedback on designs.
• Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component.
• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns.
• Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables.
• Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture.
• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team.
• Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities.
• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain.
• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management
• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help
• Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks
• Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target
• Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues
• Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns
• Willingness to teach and grow junior team members
• Excellent listening skills
• Effectively works within the team and across teams.
• Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers.
• Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again.
• Follows through on all tasks.
• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes.
• Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Mastery of data structures and algorithms.
• Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems.
• Able to write high-quality code rapidly.
• Able to present a track record of solving problems of increasing complexity
• Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity.
• Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Writes code faster than the average developer.
• Outstanding quality with few bugs in generated code.

Education:

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Travel Requirements:

0-10%

• The technologies involved include C, C++, Java, Borland C++, Visual Studio, and others.
• Job Family Group: Engineering
• Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering
• Job Profile Name: Senior Software Engineer
• Employee Type:Individual Contributor
• Job Level: P4 (Advanced)