Software Engineer (Remote) Jobs

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The Software Engineer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains software applications. This includes being involved in understanding the business impact of the necessary work and creating solutions to realize that impact by researching, designing, documenting, and modifying software specifications throughout the development life cycle. The Software Engineer works as part of a team on a moderately complex product, project or technical domain.

The focus of this role is backend development for an internal Platform Product that provides services to internal and external customers. There is a heavy focus on APIs, eventing and messaging, and third-party integrations.

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an employee must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation. To request a reasonable accommodation, notify Human Resources or the manager who oversees the position.

• Perform software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors and general debugging.
• Participate in defining software development plans, including scoping, scheduling, and implementation.
• Partner with others in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
• May conduct code reviews based on teams defined best practices
• Create software to enhance functionality and performance of company applications
• Deploy software through environments to production upon completion of development, testing, and documentation.
• Help research, identify, analyze, and fulfill requirements of all internal and external users and stakeholders.
• Assist in the definition, development, and documentation of software’s objectives, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with internal users and departments.
• Operate and monitor software for performance, maintenance needs, and ongoing success.
• Provide product and software support for bugs, issues, and escalated incident tickets from end users to resolve application and software issues.
• Recommends new technologies, approaches, and best practices for their team.
• Responsible for software aspects of your team or technical domain, potentially as a subject matter expert or owner of a service or functionality.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, developers, and other team members in the conceptualization and development of new or existing software applications.

Additional Functions

In addition to the essential functions listed above, the incumbent may perform the following additional functions.

• Participate in regulatory and compliance activities.

Required Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of software development and engineering best practices
• Knowledge of all aspects of application development and product life cycles, including agile approaches
• Extensive database and operating systems experience
• Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products
• Demonstrated knowledge in object-oriented programming and design 
• At least 3 years of software development experience required, leveraging various modern language, frameworks, or platforms.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Travel to corporate sites is periodically required (Quarterly or so)
• Office environment – either in Patterson facility or at home/remote location
• Knowledge of programming for different delivery approaches such as on-premises, web, cloud, and mobile
• Periodic on call rotations and available outside of normal business hours on evenings and weekends during critical production release or issue escalation periods

What's In It For You

We provide competitive benefits, unique incentive programs and rewards for our eligible employees:

• Full Paid Parental and Adoption Leave.
• LifeWorks (Employee Assistance Program).
• Holiday Pay & Floating Holidays.
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO).
• Educational Assistance Program (Tuition Reimbursement).
• Patterson Perks Program.
• 401(k) Match Retirement Savings Plan.
• Full Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits and an integrated Wellness Program.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

EEO Statement

EOE, including disability/vets.

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