Senior Software Engineer

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, WA 98109

Duration: 7 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $ 90.99-96.19/ Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. We are a community of 50 million who think—and feel—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping investors achieve their goals has been our main reason for existence. At Client, we’re built differently. Our client is investor-owned, meaning that we’re owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients. Therefore, your success adds to ours, so you’re surrounded by people who care about the same things. With no other parties to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with your needs in mind. Because of our unique structure, your goals align with our goals.

Job Description:

• Design, develop, implement, test, document and deliver large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services using multi-threaded programming, distributed programming in Java and C++, JDBC, SQL, Object Oriented design and design patterns, Oracle, and middleware messaging systems in a Linux environment.
• Assist in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements, and translate requirements into technical specifications for robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
• Own delivery of entire piece of system or application, and serve as technical lead on complex projects using best practice engineering standards.
• Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation. Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation and travel for onsite troubleshooting or project launch.

Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus one year of experience in the job offered or related occupations of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related.
• Experience in the job offered or related occupation must involve multi-threaded programming and distributed programming in Java or C++ on Linux.
• Experience must also involve JDBC, SQL, and Object Oriented design and design patterns.
• Requires availability for travel and 24x7 on-call support rotation.
• Employer will accept Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus five years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent to the Master's degree.

Purpose of the Team and key projects:

• The team is launching new sales workflow initiatives requiring dedicated front-end and back-end systems.
• The contractors will build internal tools to support sales teams and sales operations, focusing on lightweight UI and backend systems.
• The tools are expected to serve 500 users initially, potentially scaling to 1000 users.

Task Breakdown and Workflow:

• 10% meetings, 10% team coordination, and 80% hardcore development and testing.

Internal Team interactions:

• Biweekly sprint
• Maybe a monthly team meeting

What makes this role interesting:

• Weekly 1:1s with HM, weekly team stand ups

Team culture/ selling points:

• Building from front to end

Top 3 Must-Have Hard Skills:

• Full-stack capabilities including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python scripting
• SQL
• AWS experience

Leadership Principles:

• Dive deep
• Deliver results
• Insist on the highest standards

Nice to haves:

• Ex-employee experience
• Worked closely within a database
• Data visualization experience

Years of Experience :

• 6-7+ years of experience with bachelor's degrees in engineering.

Disqualifies:

• NO SQL experience
• No experience building tools from end to end

Performance Indicators:

• Performance will be measured across multiple phases including comprehensiveness of high-level and low-level designs, consideration of frugality and long-term maintainability, code review quality, iteration cycles, and edge case thinking.
• The evaluation process will be collaborative throughout the engagement

Degree/ Certification Requirements:

• bachelor's degrees in engineering. Ex-employee experience is strongly preferred to minimize learning curve given tight timelines. AWS certification is a plus.

What background does someone have that is successful in this role?

• Full-stack capabilities including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python scripting, SQL, and AWS experience

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.