Software Engineer I

About Us:

At MotionPoint we’re on a mission - to create understanding through language. Our leading translation platform, technology, services delivery, together with our expertise in language and digital/web platforms, allow our customers to not only build and grow their global businesses, but do so in a turnkey manner so they can focus on other key digital business priorities. Because of that we’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization, and talent. Our culture is purpose-built to be customer first, and we offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. If you’re ready to work with a team that makes a difference in the world every day, let’s talk.

Summary:
The Software Engineer I will work and participate in most aspects of the software development process including requirements gathering, designing, coding, unit testing, integration testing, and deployment automation.  The candidate is expected to work well within a collaborative team of software professionals. The candidate will work with their team to translate software requirements into workable programming code and maintain and enhance existing software for use in MotionPoint’s technology solutions and products.

Essential Job Functions

• Work within an agile software development team, and with product management, to maintain and enhance MotionPoint’s software programs and applications.
• Participate in agile software development practices.
• Produce technical documentation and communicate concepts with their development team.
• Collaborate with technical leadership and team members to develop leading edge solutions to maximize performance and scalability with high quality.
• Help translate requirements into workable programming code and participate in technical design discussions and sometimes review the code of other members of their development team.
• Design, code, write unit and integration tests, and execute tests.
• Participate in most aspects of the collaborative development process including code reviews, agile team rituals, design discussions, and planning processes.
• Understand security requirements and help achieve compliance with security standards

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
• 3+ years of development experience with Java SE/EE
• SDLC experience (requirements, architecture, design, testing, and deployment)
• Experience with writing unit tests and Junit framework
• Experience with Git or similar source code control system
• Familiar with Agile processes: Scrum and Kanban
• Familiar with RDBMS (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgressSQL)
• Familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Familiar with Web Application Frameworks: React, Angular, Bootstrap, jQuery
• Familiar with Object-Oriented design and design patterns
• Familiar with JSP, Servlets and SQL/JDBC
• Familiar with Web Technologies (Javascript, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, JSON)
• Familiar with cloud computing: AWS, Azure, IaaS, PaaS
• Familiar with Spring Framework, Spring MVC REST, ORM/Hibernate and JDBC
• Familiar with Web Servers (ISS, Apache, Tomcat, Nginx)
• Familiar with CI/CD technologies (Maven, Jenkins, Nexus/Artifactory, Terraform)
• Familiar with Micro-services architecture