A Software Engineer at Confluence, working either in our Pittsburgh, PA office or remotely, creates software applications, prototypes, and other technical artifacts for use by customers, other engineers and non-technical team members. This person works from user stories and architectural specifications created by product owners and software architects. This person spends their time doing hands on coding while openly communicating with other members of the project team. This position works across the entire web application technology stack from UI to business layer to data storage.
What Will You Do?
Work with software engineers, QA, architects and tech writers to design and build high quality software that delivers great value to our Clients.
Use software industry best practices and tools to code, test, debug and release software products.
Work on a cross-functional Scrum team participating in planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and demos.
Provide input to Product Owner and Scrum Master on scope and size of User Stories.
Take responsibility for timely completion of software tasks identifying alternative approaches or work-arounds when problems are encountered.
Seek constant improvement of Confluence’s products, software engineering process and teams as well as continuous development and growth of your skills.
Mentor Software Engineers and QA team members on technology and software practices.
What skills are we looking for?
We are seeking great Software Engineers with 2-6 years of software development experience who not only strives to keep up on the latest trends from the industry but also looks at software development as something more than "getting it to work". You should have a knack for making software maintainable, believe that testing is as important as building functionality, and love working with a cross-functional agile team to pivot the best software to the market.
These base technical skills are needed:
Solid experience in C# and JavaScript
Experience with dependency injection and unit testing frameworks
Past participation on Scrum/Agile teams
Relational database development experience
A strong desire to learn and continuously develop
Experience delivering products from inception to completion
Excellent problem-solving skills
Experience we’d prefer, but don’t require:
. NET, C#, Sql Server, or Oracle
Experience with legacy VB6 applications
A successful team member will appreciate mentoring others and has a willingness to be mentored. We require a sound decision maker that utilizes knowledge of business to drive decisions with a great sense of commitment in doing the job right the first time. We are looking for someone with a strong willingness to learn continuously and take ownership and accountability.
Potential remote employees must have experience working as a remote team member. Success delivering high-quality software and collaborating with an agile team, while working from a home-office, must be demonstrated.
Confluence’s company culture and values guide our decisions, whether it’s about product, brand or people. So if you are an ambassador of Integrity, Imagination, Discipline and Service to others and have the skills and interest, we would love to hear from you.
