Software Engineer II

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

At Fortra, we’re breaking the attack chain. Ready to join us?

This position is responsible for enhancing and maintaining existing software products as well as developing new products. The ideal candidate has a strong desire for excellence, has started taking more initiative, works with less supervision, confidence in their expertise, team player and is a creative problem solver.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement new features and functionality.
• Diagnose and fix complex product defects within a project or supporting customers.
• Has basic knowledge and/or working toward having basic knowledge for assigned Fortra product(s).
• Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies.
• The ability and self-discipline to use self-training tools (e.g. LinkedIn Learning).
• Be able to start writing less complex technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements.
• Perform testing of features and defect fixes performed by other developers.
• Follow and help refine our development best practices and standards.
• Help identify, prioritize, and execute tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Comply with standards, version controls, and product release procedures.
• Work with technical writers to ensure product documentation on new features and changes are properly documented.
• Work under minimal supervision on various projects.
• Some latitude for independent judgement.
• Assist or mentor other less experienced team members.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• On-call will be required after the ramp up period
• Master of Science in Computer Science or 5+ years of documented work as a C developer.
• Working knowledge of software life-cycle applications.
• Scripting skills, Knowledge of PKI.
• Understanding the lifecycle of requirements gathering, development, code review and testing.
• Deep knowledge of C coding.
• Experience of Linux/Unix platforms, skillful at the command line.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum Project development methodology.
• A good working knowledge of the relevant programming language requirement for this role.
• Good communications skills, both verbal and written.
• The ability to collaborate and work with a team are necessary.