Full Stack Software Engineer

The Opportunity:

Through market-leading credential-driven privileges and innovative payments, Our Client enables every aspect of student life across campus. We partner with institutions to deliver a mobile-centric, personalized student and family experience both on and off-campus. We are the only true enterprise-class cloud platform, enabling mission-critical capabilities that support student success by powering every aspect of campus life along with data for meaningful institutional insight.

Our People:

As an industry leading software company, we are lucky to have deep support and experience in house with talented engineers, infrastructure experts and architects across the global family working as part of and alongside our teams. Together we invest in each other’s success . We have surfers, runners, chess players, snowboarders, dads, mums, married people, single people, hurlers, speakers, soccer fans, rugby fans, Belarusian folk dancers, yoga fans, book clubbers, seasoned travellers, Lego builders, animal lovers, cyclists, gardeners, gamers and tv show aficionados. We celebrate our differences.

Position Responsibilities:

Our Client, the global leader in higher education learning software and campus card systems, is searching for a Software Engineer to lead Our Client Data Portal Development. Based in Limerick, Ireland, Our Clients campus card systems are installed in America’s largest and most prestigious colleges and universities. You’ll be responsible for developing a data portal that presents data related insights and reports to the clients. This portal will be hosted in the Azure Cloud environments as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. You will play an integral role in the establishment of this exciting green-field software development effort. Specifically, you are responsible for:

• Work as the full stack web developer within a SCRUM team of data and analytics professionals to understand and implement functionality for new solutions
  
• Analyze problems and implement solutions that trade off architectural constraints of functionality, usability, performance, reliability, and scalability
  
• Write and modify REST APIs using .NET frameworks in an n-tier distributed environment consumed from multiple cloud and on-prem environments
  
• Design and implement modern web-based user interfaces using best practices to support new functionality (HTML5)
  
• Design and implement new databases and use other forms of storage to persist application data
  
• Enthusiasm for learning about Big Data and Analytics challenges and participating in Data Analytics development work
  
• Support the life cycle of the application during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post release
  
• Comply with and contribute to consistent development guidelines (coding, change control, build, versioning)
  
• Participate in peer code reviews
  

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in software development using HTML5, C# / .NET, Angular, Typescript
  
• Experience in developing new solutions using modern Javascript frameworks
  
• User Interface design experience, familiarity with styling web interfaces using CSS, Bootstrap or similar packages
  
• Interested in growing your data analytics skills (DataBricks, PowerBI, SQL, Azure DataFactory)
  
• Experience with data visualization development
  
• Experience with working with relational database platforms
  
• In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns such as Inversion of Control as well as SOLID object-oriented principles
  
• Experienced with development of REST APIs
  
• Solid understanding of test-driven development including mock object frameworks
  
• Experience with one or more source control platforms such as Git
  
• Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum
  
• Experienced with continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts
  
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and planning skills
  
• Ability to understand technical requirements and decompose them into work tasks
  
• Fluency in written and spoken English are required, other languages a plus
  

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing applications for AWS, Azure, Google or other cloud platforms for large-scale, multi-tenant, SaaS
  
• Experience with Azure Functions
  
• Experience with Azure APIM
  
• Experience with Data Analytics platform tools – Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SQL DB, PowerBI
  
• Experience and interest in the application of Data Science using ML and AI
  
• Experience with Apache Spark
  
• Experience with containerized application development
  
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Mongo, Cassandra
  
• Experience with Flask, Django, R-shiny or caret
  

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

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