Senior Software Engineer (Java Backend)

About the role

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate high-scale applications across the full engineering stack
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)
• Work across teams to integrate systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, and CSA Toolset
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality
• Participate in a tight-knit, globally distributed engineering team
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing sources of issues and impact on network, service operations, and quality
• Manage sole project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Research, create, and develop software applications to extend and improve Equifax Solutions
• Collaborate on scalability issues involving access to data and information
• Actively participate in Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activities

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, and cloud-native software development
• 5+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 5+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions
• 5+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• 5+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understanding infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

Skills

What could set you apart:

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision
• Cloud-native software development experience
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA, and Microservices
• Source code control management systems (e.g., SVN/Git, GitHub) and build tools like Maven & Gradle
• Agile environments (e.g., Scrum, XP)
• Relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub)
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI