Senior Software Engineer from Catapult Staffing

San Diego, CA

About the Job

Senior Software Developer (Authentication Services or Backend Services)

San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
Contract, Full-Time (6+ Months)

About Our Client: Our client is a renowned software company with a strong presence in financial and tax preparation solutions. With decades of experience, they provide innovative platforms and services to empower consumers and small businesses. Operating globally, they are dedicated to delivering exceptional products that simplify complex financial tasks. Their mission centers around leveraging technology to create seamless and intuitive experiences for their diverse customer base.

Job Description: We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to join our dynamic Identity Platform Team. In this pivotal role, you will contribute to the development of highly available, scalable, and secure authentication services critical for our millions of customers across various products. Your expertise in backend services engineering, design, development, testing, maintenance, and documentation of high-quality software components will be instrumental in shaping the future of our identity-focused solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply Domain Driven Design principles to architect backend services that seamlessly integrate with our product ecosystem. Your hands-on coding experience, ranging from 70% to 85%, will be invaluable in developing well-architected web services, applications, prototypes, and proofs of concepts. Additionally, you will lead the effort to automate and streamline the CI/CD process, continuously improving our capabilities around quality and operational excellence.

Duties and Responsibilities

Apply Domain Driven Design principles to architect backend services, aligning well with the product ecosystem.
Develop well-architected web services, applications, prototypes, or proofs of concepts with 70% to 85% hands-on coding.
Lead the effort to automate and streamline the CI/CD process and continuously improve capabilities around quality and operational excellence.
Hands-on troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of incidents in both PROD and pre-PROD environments.
Work cross-functionally with various teams, including product management, QA/QE, various product lines, and/or business units, to drive forward results.
Lead the gathering of functional requirements, develop technical specifications, and project & test planning.
Act as the technical subject matter expert: Mentor fellow engineers, demonstrate technical expertise, and lead a small team solving challenging programming and design problems.

Required Experience/Skills

6+ years of experience designing and developing world-class, consumer-facing web services and web applications.
1+ years of experience with REST or GraphQL and expertise with Spring or related frameworks for creating web services.
1+ years of experience with running enterprise-scaled services running on distributed cloud computing environments.
Expertise with Java/J2EE or related programming language.
Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, being the technical go-to person, and serving as a cross-functional leader.
Expertise in the software design/architecture process.
Expertise with unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Nice-to-Haves

Building strong teams: Setting and evangelizing vision, facilitative leadership, attracting and retaining key talent.
Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies.
Strong educational background with a BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.

Education BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Pay & Benefits Summary

Competitive pay rate of $95-$97/hr
Comprehensive benefits package (details to be discussed)

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