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Job Summary

The Software Development Eng Staff (Specialist level) is a seasoned experienced professional with a full understanding of the area of specialization while responsible for a variety of software development engineering systems issues. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position. Is an individual contributor level that does not lead other employees or teams.

Responsibilities

• A seasoned experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways
• Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments

Technical 

• Consistently produces  maintainable, high quality professional software code independently

• Designs systems independently and leads by example to more junior team members

• Debugs production issues involving multiple systems; works to simplify, optimize and remove bottlenecks

• Sets code review guidelines and sets an example in code quality to more junior team members

Technical for SDET/QA

• Owns and delivers on quality goals for the team; leads by example

• Contributes towards CI/CD goals for the team

• Influences the definition of stories and epics and owns functional test methodology

• Has a firm grasp of system and deployment architecture; identifies performance and scalability bottlenecks and influences the solution

Dealing with Ambiguity

• Technical strategy is defined. Able to deal with ambiguity and adopt

• Helps to interpret ambiguous product requirements and provides clarity

Process

• Identifies opportunities to improve the team's efficiency and operational excellence, and implements within a diverse scope

Scope and Impact

• Owns medium, large sub-systems consisting of many moving features and parts of software engineering systems

Leadership

• Dives deep into the root cause of  issues and ensures that the issues remain fixed

• Collaborates with and influences team members; mentors junior engineers

• Views problems as opportunities and proposes solutions

• Acts like an owner; thinks on behalf of customers

• Able to navigate  challenges faced in achieving goals or reach out for help in a timely manner

• Mentors junior engineers

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

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