Remote Software Engineer II

Position Purpose

The Software Engineer II is responsible for independently developing and assisting in the design of a product that our customers and associates love. As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Software Engineer IIs may be involved in configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery and Execution: Collaborate and pair with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions. Document, review, and ensure that all quality and change control standards are met. Work with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable. Write custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases. Write custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production. Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology. Configure commercial off-the-shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs. Create meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively.
Learning: Actively seek ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. Learn through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems.
Plans and Aligns: Collaborate with other team members in agile processes. Assist in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful. Relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

1-3 years of relevant work experience.
Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database.
Experience in version control systems.
Experience in front-end technology such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java).
Experience in source code version control.
Experience in relational or NoSQL database technology.
Experience in cloud computing techniques.
Experience in CI/CD tools.
Experience in microservice-based architecture.
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques.
Exposure to security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication.
Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests.

Education

The knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.