JOB SUMMARY
Under general supervision, contributes to the development, maintenance, and enhancement of client systems and assists in the development of new features.
CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, is committed to creating an amazing employee experience through its Host offering. Host sits at the intersection of cloud, architecture, IoT, and employee experience using mobile apps. We are set to change the way you interact with the space around you, and in turn, how that space morphs to fit you. Learn more at host.cbre.com.
In CBRE | Host, we’re building a leading customer experience and data-driven technology company. We measure our success by delighting our customers with great digital experiences and the advocacy they provide. Guided by our core values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective, teamwork and respect for each other drive superior results. We are on a constant quest to elevate each other to do the right thing for our customers to achieve their goals.
To deliver this vision, we are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help us grow our development team as we work to expand our internal and client-facing (web and mobile) applications. This person will help with our backend API development initiatives and help manage both infrastructure and software required by API’s to globally support dynamic interactive mobile applications for our client facing professionals and our customers worldwide.
The team you would join is based in Richardson, TX.
About our team:
We’re a product team within CBRE’s Digital and Technology group. We are uniquely positioned within the organization to access global data, tools, resources, and leaders throughout the industry. Our mission is to create value by developing targeted, highly scalable technology platforms for internal and external consumption.
We solve complex commercial real estate problems by bringing together good people, great minds, and top tier technologies. We value good people first, and often enjoy hanging out at happy hour or other team events.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Develops, maintains, enhances, and tests client systems of low to moderate complexity.
Serves as a technical point of contact on client engagements of low to moderate complexity.
Involved with the investigation and resolution of system and software issues in the production environment.
Assists with the development and maintenance of internal tools.
Performs other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
No formal supervisory responsibilities in this position.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in a related field such as information systems, mathematics, or computer science or equivalent work experience. Requires technical knowledge, training and understanding of the job's requirements. Typically has 2-3 years of relevant work experience. Consideration given to equivalent combination of education and experience.
5+ years of mobile development experience, preferred.
2+ years developing and architecting enterprise mobile solutions, preferred.
Proficient in Java, Kotlin and Android frameworks, preferred.
Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services, preferred.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, preferred.
Experience with build engines (Jenkins 2, Circle CI, etc.), preferred.
Working knowledge of the cloud (AWS, Azure), preferred.
Experience with standard and modern digital design tools (e.g., InVision, Zeppelin, Sketch, etc.), preferred.
Nice to haves:
Two or more shipped Android applications in Play Store.
Experience with test frameworks such as Espresso.
Experience working with development teams in an agile environment
Passion for innovation, you are informed about innovations, aware of the types, and willing to individually contribute to the cause
CERTIFICATES and/or LICENSES
None
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to customers. Ability to effectively present information.
FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE
Requires knowledge of financial terms and principles. Ability to calculate intermediate figures such as percentages, discounts, and/or commissions. Conducts basic financial analysis.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret documents. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires intermediate analytical and quantitative skills.
OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES
Database-backed web development experience is required, preferably with Java and JavaScript.
Experience with web mapping tools and spatial databases is a plus.
SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Decisions made with general understanding of procedures and company policies to achieve set results and deadlines. Errors in judgment may cause short-term impact to co-workers and supervisor or minor damage to a client engagement.
Collaborating with UX, design, product management and engineering to help define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
Develop and test new enterprise application features using test-driven development
Perform enhancements or maintenance to existing software solutions
Monitor for, evaluate, resolve and make decisions and recommendations to remediate application production issues
Work with Product Manager and Scrum Master to estimate, design, and build efficient, long term business applications utilizing standards
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CBRE is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
