Software Engineer I - Cloud Engineer

SentriLock; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SentriLock seeks a Software Engineer I to join an Agile Scrum team building mobile apps, webpages, backends, and databases. You will write clean code, translate requirements, and help push features to production.

You will review junior developers, collaborate across teams, and stay current with new tech while supporting multiple languages and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field required.
• 3-4+ years of software development in enterprise systems required.
• Proficiency with Java Spring Boot or Node/NestJS preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP) and cloud security expected.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable code following SentriLock conventions.
• Translate vague requirements into working software solutions.
• Review code and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate with team to design scalable server and client apps.
• Publish products to production and manage release processes.
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies.

Skills

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Java Spring Boot

Node/NestJS

Scalability & performance

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Jira

Slack

Jenkins

Git

Ansible

Job description

Description

The Software Engineer I is a senior member of the Application Development Team, developing custom IT solutions for our end users. The Software Engineer I will be joining one of our Agile Scrum teams responsible for developing mobile applications, webpages, backends, and database as well as identifying opportunities to trial and deploy new capabilities and tools to keep current with technology. Ideal candidates will possess a drive for thinking creatively to resolve complex problems and enjoy contributing to solutions.

Plan

• Provide input to user stories and acceptance criteria.


• Develop technical tasks required to complete User Stories


• Provide feedback regarding system performance and usability issues concerning user story development.


• Estimate capacity for the sprint and communicate which user stories should be pulled in to work.


• Lead design of applications, website, or server functionality


• Collaborate with development team to ensure consistency.


• Willing and able to support multiple technologies or programming languages.

Develop

• Independently write clean, concise code using SentriLock model view controller framework, naming conventions, and architectural standards


• Interpret vague requirements into working solutions.


• Solve difficult problems and deal with a variety of variables without a defined "right-answer."\


• Effectively deal with ambiguity and changing priorities


• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and suggest application of them into operations and activities.


• Embrace change by assisting others in accepting and moving forward with new systems and processes.


• Complete code review for junior developers


• Create/Maintain documentation along with system changes.


• Provide visibility of production updates through change management process


• Lead publication of products onto production environments

Evaluate and Support

• Accountable for quality of completed solutions.


• Unit Test code prior to turning over to QA.


• Work with QA to test solutions.


• Collaborate with QA and support personnel to troubleshoot reported bugs.


• Lead projects to their completion using appropriate methodologies.


• Provide insight on technical industry best practices.


• Mentor Junior Software Developers


• Able to communicate effectively with business users.


• Strong understanding of industry best practice collaboration or development tools such as Jira, Slack, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible


• Use Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) as necessary for collaboration.

Other duties as assigned.

• Participate in projects assigned by manager.


• Maintain and follow ISO standards.


• Seek out and complete appropriate training, development, and research.


• Knowledge of department processes


• Support the mission, principles, and goals of the company.

Requirements

• Proficiency with GCP or other cloud platforms.


• Experience with cloud services (compute, storage, networking)


• Knowledge of cloud security and best practices


• Understanding of scalability and performance optimization


• Proficiency with Java Spring Boot, Node/NestJS


• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related Degree or equivalent experience, Required


• 3-4+ Years Software Development in enterprise systems, Required


• 3+ Years Systems design, Required


• Prefer understanding of the following: SQL, GCP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, PHP, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Android, or iOS