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Company Overview
Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 80 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day.® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations. Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com/about-us.html.
A Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for building technologies across eCommerce & Loyalty experience for our customers. A Senior Software Engineer, working independently or with limited supervision, translates high-level business requirements into technical designs, proposes design alternatives, codes and/or communicates requirements to junior engineers. They have a strong knowledge of the applications in their functional area, how each supports the goals of the business and how they interface with each other and to applications outside of their area. They lead small development engagements, mentor junior engineers, solve difficult and highly complex technical problems and may be called on to consult on other projects.
Job Details
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Develops and debugs software in support of new and existing applications 65%
• Develop, execute and thoroughly document unit and system-level test plans 15%
• Designs changes to new and existing applications 10%
• Provides support for production applications (7x24) 5%
• Participate in Agile methodology and ceremonies 5%
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):
• Develop and maintain Rest/gRCP Service for e-commerce and loyalty application with high-quality, scalable and performant code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into API specifications.
• Monitor and analyze API performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.
• Writing and maintaining API Documentation for developers and consumers.
• Mentor junior team members and seek guidance from senior team members.
• Participates in code reviews and scope of work estimation and forecasting.
• Collaborate with frontend and backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs with the application.
• Writes high-quality code that meets the customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity and testability.
• Able to provide application support, analyze problems and provide solutions for complex issues.
• Able to develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery.
• Employs test-driven development and integrates unit tests in development tasks.
• Strong ability to relate code modules to the application as a whole and the underlying business objectives.
• Able to stay current on technology changes applicable to your domain and how to apply them.
• Strong analytical skills with experience gathering requirements and designing new functionality.
*Salary Range USD $115,905.00/Yr to USD $120,905.00/Yr.*
Qualifications
Work Experience &/or Education:
• 5+ years experience in software development in an IT organization or equivalent educational experience.
• 5+ years experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs using .Net Framework/Core and C#.
• 3+ years experience delivering software supporting e-commerce applications.
• 3+ years experience with a relational database (i.e., Oracle, MSSQL, Postgres, etc.).
• 1+ years of experience with No-SQL Databases (i.e Cassandra, Mongo DB etc)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, trade school or equivalent work experience.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containers and orchestration via Kubernetes or equivalent is a plus.
• Experience in implementing event driven systems using messaging platforms like RabbitMQ, Kafka or Azure Service Bus.
