Jr. Software Engineer

Department: Information Technology

Location: US-North Carolina-Raleigh

Description

The Align Quality Center of Excellence (QCOE) team is looking for a Jr. Software Engineer to join us in the US. In this role you will partnering directly with Quality Engineering team. You will work together with the leaders and peer stakeholders to help redesign our SDLC tool stack and build custom applications to continually develop and improve our SDLC, STLC, and related Quality Engineering processes.

You will work with other QCOE team members to create a harmonized Jira experience and automation to support Align's movement to a push-button deployment model. As a Jr. Software Engineer, you will need experience working within an Influence Without Authority model as you partner with leaders around the globe without direct reports.

Being part of the QCOE is a unique opportunity to help drive a culture of open decisions, inner sourced code, and other high-visibility targets. You will be seen as a thought leader in the space and will be required to demonstrate your leadership skills to help bring innovative solutions to complex problems. This is an exclusive role with a large amount of organizational exposure.

Role expectations

• Develop tools, frameworks, and automatic solutions to improve Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and overall SDLC in the company
• Develop a harmonized Jira experience to facilitate uniformity of usage and minimize maintenance for future work
• Partner with DevOps engineers, and QCOE teams for both CI pipeline automation and application development
• Support the rebuild of SDLC tool stack utilizing Atlassian tools infrastructure (JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, Fisheye, etc) and other tools such as Aligned Elements (Requirements Management) and Zephyr Scale
• Work closely with engineers, developers, analysts, and other team members to design complementary solutions interfacing ServiceNow and other 3rd party systems to develop best of breed complete solutions.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders to secure support for your teams and the successful delivery of your team's priorities
• Learn, Grow, and Maintain Quality Engineering's strategy, ensuring alignment of the offering with team and larger business strategy and priorities.
• Support OKRs, KPIs, and metrics to ensure data-driven engineering decisions.
• Participate and promote a culture of collaboration, agility, and ownership within and across team.
• Own the solution and be responsible for feature delivery, quality, and performance of the solutions
  
  

What We're Looking For

• 2 years of overall web development experience, preferably secure, scalable web applications or relevant education (BS/MS in Software/Systems related field)
• Solid knowledge of SDLC combined with practical experience working in agile teams
• Thorough understanding of the role and the place of SQA in SDLC, testing processes and methodologies, product, and process metrics
• Proved and tested ability to communicate effectively throughout all levels within a company and with those from diverse cultural background
• Ability to balance tasks, prioritize, and work well within a quick moving environment
• Experience working in a regulated environment is a plus.
  
  

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At Align, we believe in the power of a smile, and we know that every smile is as unique as our employees. As we grow, we are committed to building a workforce rich in diverse cultural backgrounds and life experiences, fostering a culture of open-mindedness and compassion. We live our company values by promoting healthy people and healthy communities, all with the intent of changing millions of lives, one unique smile at a time.

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Align Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all our practices, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected category. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying, and employment eligibility will be verified as a condition of hire.