Software Engineer III at Yazam Inc. (d/b/a Empower) will work across the full stack, initiate and lead projects to build highly scalable and efficient systems to enable positive user experiences and platform growth for Empower.
Job duties:
- Frequently communicate with other departments to gather platform requirements, analyze data and define Empower’s product roadmap;
- Propose and monitor project progress, budgets and resources;
- Engage with designers and other engineers to create and modify new product features as needed to support Empower’s nationwide expansion;
- Perform end-to-end application testing;
- Monitor system for optimal performance;
- Investigate and address ad-hoc issues that arises to ensure zero or minimal disruption to user experience;
- Manage and delegate responsibilities to more junior members of the engineering department; Review and monitor performance of junior engineers; and
- Actively mentor more junior members of the Engineering department to help them develop professionally.
Minimum Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related IT or engineering field; plus
- 5 years of post-baccalaureate experience as a full-stack software engineer, technical lead or analyst, or related technical position;
AND experience must include the following, which may have been gained concurrently
- 5+ years of experience programming in C#;
- 5+ years of experience with front-end frameworks, such as Vue JS;
- 2+ years of experience developing highly scalable, secure, production-grade backend services;
- 2+ years of experience with modern front-end development workflows and responsive design principles;
- Experience with relational databases, such as MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB , MySQL or PostgreSQL;
- Experience with Azure Cloud;
- Experience building and consuming REST or RESTful APIs;
- Experience working on a DevOps team, using Git, and automation for CI/CD;
- Experience with building dashboards based on data analytics;
- Knowledge of containerization using Docker, Kubernetes or Swarm;
- Knowledge of cloud native architectural patterns; and
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Full-time (50-60 hours/week, including weekend on-call hours). Position is located in McLean, VA. Salary range is $173,800 – $185,000/year. Interested applicants should apply by sending your resume to sarenashen@rideempower.com.
