Software Engineer 2

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:

• 60% Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions; Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes 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; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• 20% Learning - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to the Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position, and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older

Preferred Qualifications

• 1–3 years of relevant professional software development experience
• Strong application development experience using Python and/or Go
• Hands-on experience writing and optimizing SQL queries
• Experience building front-end applications using AngularJS
• Experience developing, scheduling, and maintaining workflows using Apache Airflow
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including:
• BigQuery for analytics and data processing
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for containerized application deployment
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL database technologies
• Experience working in cloud-based and microservices-oriented architectures
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools
• Working knowledge of modern debugging, monitoring, and root cause analysis techniques
• Exposure to application and service security concepts, including authentication and authorization
• Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, and performance tests