Senior Software Engineer

at  Cubic Corporation

Business Unit:
Cubic Transportation Systems
Company Details:
When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.
Job Details:
As part of the Software Engineering Team, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for applying engineering principles, procedures and techniques to perform systems engineering assignments related to the development of large, complex software systems. Responsibilities include design of architectures, oversight of test and evaluation, change manager responsibilities as well as information systems security management. The position is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyzes functional requirements.
• Create designs and detailed technical specifications for the software to be developed.
• Implement the software, incl. software configuration control, unit tests and continuous integration.
• Support or carry out the deployment process.
• Produce and maintain internal technical documentation as required, such as software designs, test specifications, technical notes.
• Provide excellent technical skills and experience in software development.
• Provide assistance and guidance to less experienced team members.
• Collaborate with other software engineering teams, the database team, the test team and the documentation team.
• Recommends test control, strategies, and equipment. Defines test schedules and test data requirements. Test and documents results.
• Report to project manager and/or team lead on performance against timescales, specifications and quality requirements. Identify any deviations from the plan and suggest corrective actions.
• Maintain IT documentation and follow IT procedures.
• Keeps abreast of improvements and developments within software engineering. Identifies software engineering process improvement and supports the execution of them across the organisation.
• Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Minimum Job Requirements
Skills knowledge and experience:

Essential:

• Considerable experience in the IT industry
• Current knowledge of methodologies, programming languages and technologies
• Good English and German language skills
• Solid commercial Java (JEE) experience
• Experience in IntelliJ, Eclipse, Git, Subversion, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Jira or comparable tools.
• Experience in comparable UML design tool.
• Fluent German language skills
• Desirable:
• Experience with Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, and/or Karaf
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubermetes
• Experience in Web Service Security (WSS) and PKI infrastructures
• Experience in high volume data processing
• Expertise in public transport ticketing and/or financial book keeping
• Experience in Oracle and or PostgreSQL (table design, queries, query optimisation)
• Experience in XML and JSON
• Experience in JavaScript, CSS and HTML
• Experience in Enterprise Architect

Education and qualifications

Essential:

• A university degree in a numerate subject (e.g. computer science, maths, engineering, natural science) or similar qualification.

Desirable:

• Certificates regarding relevant methods (UML, Scrum) and technologies (Java)
• Personal Qualities
• Self-motivated
• Able to work on own initiative as part of a team
• Attention to detail and adherence to procedures
• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Aware of software development best practice and able to apply standards and procedures effectively.
• Candidate may be required to complete security checks

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.
Worker Type:
Employe

• Analyzes functional requirements.
• Create designs and detailed technical specifications for the software to be developed.
• Implement the software, incl. software configuration control, unit tests and continuous integration.
• Support or carry out the deployment process.
• Produce and maintain internal technical documentation as required, such as software designs, test specifications, technical notes.
• Provide excellent technical skills and experience in software development.
• Provide assistance and guidance to less experienced team members.
• Collaborate with other software engineering teams, the database team, the test team and the documentation team.
• Recommends test control, strategies, and equipment. Defines test schedules and test data requirements. Test and documents results.
• Report to project manager and/or team lead on performance against timescales, specifications and quality requirements. Identify any deviations from the plan and suggest corrective actions.
• Maintain IT documentation and follow IT procedures.
• Keeps abreast of improvements and developments within software engineering. Identifies software engineering process improvement and supports the execution of them across the organisation.
• Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them