Software Engineer

Quest Diagnostics; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare diagnostics company is looking for a Software Engineer in Atlanta to design and develop effective code and manage the full product development lifecycle. You will create new functionalities, work on system redesign, and develop APIs while ensuring software scalability and reliability. Candidates should have 1-3 years of experience, primarily in Java development and web services like REST and SOAP. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a collaborative development team.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering required.
• Experience in server-side web applications using Java needed.
• Familiarity with developing Java Web Services using public APIs.

Responsibilities

• Create new functionalities and redesign existing systems.
• Engage in prototyping and test-driven development.
• Implement scalable and robust services.
• Develop external and internal APIs.

Skills

Experience in software engineering

Java development

REST/SOAP API development

Object-oriented development

Adapting to new technology

Java frameworks knowledge

Job description

Quest Diagnostics is looking for a Software Engineer to create well-designed, effective, testable, and specification-compliant code and carry out the entire product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Create new functionalities and redesign certain aspects of an already-existing system.
• Engage in prototyping, reviews, and test-driven, iterative development with a development team.
• Create and write middle- and back-end code in an organized and effective manner.
• Implement scalable and robust services.
• Develop external and internal APIs.
• Develop and run unit and performance tests to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Review and debug code.
• Develops documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clean code to explain and show solutions.
• Determines and designs system specifications, standards, and programming to prepare and install solutions.

Requirements

• Between 1 and 3 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience developing server-side web applications in Java
• Experience developing Java Web Services with public API (e.g. REST, SOAP)
• Proficient in object-oriented development
• Able to effectively and quickly adopt new technology
• Knowledge of Java frameworks, architecture, and design patterns