Senior Software Engineer

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for creating, maintaining, and updating Penn Vet's B2B eCommerce website. This position will be a key player in achieving digital and eCommerce goals, having an immediate effect on our brand and customer experience. This position can be remote, hybrid or onsite: candidates must be able to have a designated home office space to allow a quiet and secure work environment using Penn Vet provided equipment.

Essential Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business stakeholders, other developers, and other teams to understand project requirements and translate them into technical deliverables.
• Designs and implements scalable, responsive, and user-friendly web applications with a focus on both front-end and back-end development.
• Develops well-structured and efficient code using appropriate programming languages and frameworks, ensuring high performance and maintainability.
• Creates and maintains databases, APIs and server-side functionalities to support seamless dataflow and application functionality.
• Ensures the security and integrity of web applications by implementing best practices for authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Analyzes, supports, maintains, refactors, and modernizes legacy code.
• Participates in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to maintain code quality and consistency across the team.
• Completes other related duties as assigned, customary to department and role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience and knowledge in the following areas:
  • Core Java (8 and 21+), Java EE development, REST APIs
  • IDEs such as Eclipse (IBM Rational Application Developer) and JetBrains IntelliJ
  • Front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Complex SQL and relational databases (DB2 / DB2 for i, PostgreSQL)
  • Unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, source control such as Git, and Java build/dependency frameworks such as Maven
  • Strong experience with installation, configuration, upgrade, and administration of Linux environments
  • Strong experience with installation, configuration, upgrade, and administration of HCL Digital Experience, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, and/or OpenLiberty
  • Solid understanding of software design patterns, principles, standards, best practices, and security
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and well organized.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate sophisticated technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to organize one’s own activities and manage multiple priorities independently while also working as an active member of a team.
• Ability to work outside normal hours to deploy code changes, update/maintain OS, software, frameworks and all other aspects of the ecommerce ecosystem.
• Ability to work from home (remotely).

Preferred Experience

• Strong experience with eCommerce website development.
• Strong experience with JavaScript and responsive site design.
• Strong experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Node.js, React, and/or Next.js.
• Strong experience with IBM Portal/HCL Digital Experience development including Portlets and WCM.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.