Software Engineer

Software Engineer 

Hybrid- Boston Office (Remote potential for EST/CST)

Escher Group

Escher powers the world’s first and last mile deliveries, helping Posts connect nearly 1 billion consumers with global ecommerce networks. Postal operators rely on Escher to deliver an enhanced retail and digital customer experience, to activate new revenue streams, and to realize new delivery economics. Learn more at www.eschergroup.com

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Software Engineer is responsible for developing and extending business applications for our clients. Using the Agile Scrum methodology, you will be working to implement and extend applications that can run on a variety of environments including WPF, UWP, iOS, and Android. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• The development and extension of features for Escher clients on the Escher core platform
• Utilize best practices and design patterns to write clean, efficient, and elegant code
• Troubleshooting, debugging and resolving technical issues
• Writing Unit Tests
• Participate in client reviews and presentations

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 4 years of software development experience using .Net/C# for Windows, Desktop, and Mobile apps
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft .NET framework and specifically C#
• Experience with full project lifecycle
• Able to pass security clearance requirements of targeted Escher client (e.g., must be US citizen or have a green card to pass security clearance for USPS)
• Knowledge of Xamarin or WPF

Personal Skills

• Good problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated
• Willingness to keep up with the latest technology trends
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good client presentation skills
• Must be US citizen or have a green card- necessitated by client security clearance requirements 
• Must be able to pass security clearance requirements as a government contractor

Technical Skills

• Required: .NET / C# / .NET Core
• Required: Web Service Knowledge (e.g., XML or JSON, SOAP, REST)
• Required: Object Oriented Design Patterns (e.g., MVVM)
• Desirable: PCL & Shared Code
• Desirable: XAML
• Required: WPF or Xamarin Forms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, UWP)
• Required: NUnit / NSubstitute

Why Join Escher?

Do you want to join a team that is enhancing the customer experience for over 1 billion people and digitally transforming postal operations on a global scale? Our customers are among the largest postal operators and couriers on the planet and our purpose built-customer engagement platform is helping them to profitably engage customers anywhere, anytime.

At Escher, you’ll be part of a global team with employees on four continents supporting customers from across 35 countries. Here, people truly are our greatest strength, and we mean it. At Escher, you’ll have the support of an experienced leadership team and a group of dedicated employees that have been helping postal operators redefine customer engagement for over 30 years.

What We Have to Offer

Escher offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible annual leave, annual bonus program, and so much more! Most importantly, a career at Escher is one that is both rich and rewarding with many opportunities and room for growth. This is truly a unique opportunity to be part of an exceptional team, helping to transform some of the biggest organizations in the world, and influencing the future of postal operations. If you’re up for the challenge, we want to hear from you!

Escher is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative actions and measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.