Software Engineer

Software Engineer

  Not Disclosed

  Urbandale, IA (100% Remote)

  12.5 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Manufacturing

  $59.85/hour - $64.85/hour

Job Description

Description :

Software Engineer

Major Purpose:

Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver moderately complex functionality on a complete product or significant portion of a product it supports. This level develops simple designs to solve well-defined problems with guidance from more senior team members. May assign, coordinate and review portions of the work to support personnel; Makes decisions within established guidelines subject to review by supervisors; Executes high level applications to more complex problems.

Major Duties:

Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
Evaluates and implements enhancement design solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications.
Analyzes assignments and determines software specifications that must be fulfilled to achieve objectives.
Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed.
Collaborates with other relevant stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs.
Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:

Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
Ability to apply engineering principles and concepts for designs.
Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment

Education:

Degree in an Engineering/Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience:

Previous experience in programming/software development. (1 - 3 years)
Software development processes experience. (1 - 3 years)
Participating in Agile Development (1 - 3 years)
Experience working in an Agile Environment (1 - 3 years)


Specific Position Requirements

Primary Roles

Create and update API interfaces to MySQL backend databases. The API is hosted on AWS ECS and written using Python.
Ingest data into the Enterprise Data Lake from various database/file sources
Transform data and create common tables using Pyspark and SQL
Load data into MySQL from the Enterprise Data Lake
Analyze data using SQL and Pyspark
Create and maintain updates to AWS resources

Supporting Roles

Work closely with the front end developer on the API specification
Build test scripts in Python to test data replication processes
Work closely with the product manager and end users to understand requirements

Required Skills

Experience requirements - at least 3 - 5 years of experience with SQL, Python and cloud computing (AWS preferred)
Languages and Frameworks: Python, SQL, Pyspark
Core understanding of AWS services including IAM, Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS and EC2
Experience developing Databricks jobs and pipelines
Other: Docker, containerization concepts, REST API concepts (calling REST APIs using Python)

Additional Skills

Terraform, Github Actions, Datadog, AWS Database Migration Service, Apache Airflow, REST API development in Python

Note :

This position is available for remote work
VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status