Senior Software Development Engineer

As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Tideworks, you are a member of an agile-oriented cross-functional team of software engineers, testers, technical writers, and designers who leverage software to solve real-world problems in the container industry. You actively develop new software code and maintain existing code with a high degree of quality, leveraging strong software design principles, ingenuity and creativity, attention to detail, and analytical skills to devise unique and innovative software solutions. You code across all tiers of an N-tier architecture, including client-tier, middle-tiers, and back-end (data / database), integrate software systems with third parties, develop and maintain robust test automation suites, and build and leverage configuration and deployment automation tools.

Keeping the client at the heart of all that you do, you work with Business Analysts to determine feasibility and efficacy of client requirements and product specifications; with Testers to build and maintain automation test suites; with application support to understand, debug, and resolve issues found by clients; and with managers and leaders to ensure achievement of Tideworks’ critical OKRs.

• Ensure high-quality software deliverables by leveraging automation and tooling best practices.
• Participate in and support configuration, implementation, development, enhancement, and software source code and script modifications.
• Work with Business Systems Analysts to turn client or product-driven functional requirements into well-designed, sustainable software solutions.
• Translate backlog items into physical design and logical units and ensures design meet business request.
• Assist and review technical design specifications.
• Participate and play a leading role in estimation exercises and sessions.
• Use DevOps and Agile processes to deliver desired functionality quickly and effectively while iterating to continue development.
• Code applications implementing high-quality, fault tolerant, clean, scalable, reusable, and maintainable GUIs, middleware business logic, Tideworks-generic APIs, tools and test automation suites.
• Review code for quality assurance and build into development artifact and practices.
• Analyze and create automated tests.
• Design and develop test automation frameworks and any in-house tools required.
• Perform configuration and provide guidance to more junior Engineers.
• Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and isolate software problems.
• Offer strategic solutions, analysis, and advice regarding identified issues for future development.
• Provide support for incidents.
• Maintain the stability and usability of the software across all environments.
• Contribute to the growth of Tideworks’ collective knowledge through strong code-level and knowledge base documentation, including capturing software design details, configuration and deployment notes.
• Build a deep understanding of Tideworks’ products, clients, product configurations, and data.
• Other duties as assigned.