Software Engineer

at  Sage

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Software Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long term objectives using the identified architecture.
The Developer will design, develop and deliver high quality products and/or systems and services that exceed customers’ or business partners’ expectations and will proactively share their own knowledge for specific technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.

Key performance indicators: (3-5 Max)

• Complete assigned development tasks to agreed level of quality and by the required deadline.
• Design, develop, deliver and maintain application/service solutions.
• Ensure adherence to best practice and processes. Focus on sound development concepts and patterns such as object/service orientated architecture, refactoring and separation of concerns.
• Provide accurate, detailed and timely estimates and track own activities against plan
• Comply with project plans and industry standards
• Code Coverage provided on the code developed

Key stakeholders:

Influence, collaborate and co-ordinate with:

• Development Team Leader and/or Senior and Principal Developers – for direction and escalation
• Architecture, Security & Design team - to ensure that it is possible to implement the proposed designs, standards and quality
• Testers - to ensure deliverables have been fully understood and tested.
• Customer Services - to provide technical support, as required, to assist with the prompt resolution of issues

Technical / professional qualifications:

• Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
• Contribution to open source software projects
• Real world application development experienc

• Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
• Contribute to quality activities, incl. peer reviews of estimates, designs and code
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Be an active and enthusiastic team player. Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
• Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics
• Work cross-functionally with various Sage teams: product management, QA/XD, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results
• Proven experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools & techniques
• Provide 3rd tier support and/or expertise for the area of responsibility
  Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have: (5 or 6 Max)

• Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of software development.
• Passion for being hands on techie
• Ability to interpret and document user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment
• Broad operational knowledge in 21st Century IT (Cloud, Social, Mobility, IoT, Big Data…)
• Knowledge on Architecture Best Practices and Patterns (Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …)
• Proven experience in using a TDD approach

Preferred: (2 or 3 Max)

• Innovative and creative thinking
• Customer Focus
• 2-5 years professional experience.

Technical / professional qualifications:

• Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
• Contribution to open source software projects
• Real world application development experience