Management and staff in Kofax’s Software Engineering job family help the company to build and improve new and/or existing software products and their applications that we sell to our customers. The position of Engineer is a core, entry-level departmental role and appointees are expected to perform whole core departmental tasks; albeit more basic tasks by comparison to Senior Engineers/Specialists and above.
Engineers will perform some of the following work and be involved in other aspects, as assigned:
- Contributing to product ideas and innovation
- Evaluating product roadmaps (working with Product Management, among other internal partners) to determine design and programming development requirements to meet customer needs (includes evaluating existing products and applications to enhance these and/or designing new products and applications)
- Conducting research, where appropriate and needed, to solve specific design problems
- Creating product and/or applications’ architecture and design documentation to specify engineering development requirements
- Writing/developing code for new, existing or enhanced software products and applications
- Working with various internal partners (such as Quality Assurance) to test new or enhanced products and their applications
- Participating in cross-functional build/configuration activities to ensure overall effective and efficient new or enhanced engineering design
- Contributing to downstream business activities such as technical publications and other technical communications’ tool development to ensure streamlined and effective end-user use of Kofax software products and their applications
- Ensuring new or updated releases are completed on-time, on-target, on-budget and without compromise to quality
- Supporting other internal and external partners/stakeholders/customers, as and when appropriate, in responding to technical inquiries
- Staying abreast of industry and field developments; remaining current in the latest technologies and functionalities, as well as ever-evolving needs of customers and their customers
Other Responsibilities:
- Domestic and/or International travel up to 10% is required
Part of a new team to handle critical customer issues. The ideal candidate would enjoy debugging difficult issues and working on something new all the time.
Candidate must interface with support, engineering product line teams, and at times customers.
This position requires flexible work hours. The team collectively must address requests across multiple time zones and (to a lesser extent weekends). This will be accomplished primarily via different work shifts, but also some rotation on-call rotation is required.
There may be some travel for training.
Candidate should be:
- a generalist
- be able to dig into new areas quickly
- be able to think of ways to work a problem until a solution is found
- be able to explain root cause
- be able to write high level descriptions of problem and next steps as well as get down to detail for the engineering teams
Experience with:
- Advanced Debugging skills including analyzing dump files and solving difficult software issues: crashes, race conditions, deadlocks, memory corruption, timing issues, determine root cause;
- Windows Internals and Win 32;
- C#/C++ programming for Windows and related frameworks including .NET, MFC, STL;
- COM, ATL and COM Interop;
- Object Oriented Programming (OOP) skills;
- Authentication and security protocols;
- High-performance multi-threading;
- Net, Java Script and Web Services;
- SQL DB (Oracle or SQL Server) and at least one DB API (OLEDB, ADO, ODBC).
Candidates for this position should hold the following qualifications, have the following experience, and be able to demonstrate the following competencies to be considered as a suitable applicant. Please note that except where specified as “preferred,” or as a “plus,” all points listed below are considered minimum requirements.
- Bachelors Degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
- Typically has 2 or more years’ relevant technical experience
Kofax, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V
Job Details
- Tracking Code: E16-190
- Job Location: St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Position Type: Full-Time/Regular