Software Engineer

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 you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

Responsibilities

• Perform general application development activities, including unit testing, code deployment to development environment and technical documentation.
• Works on one or more projects, making contributions to unfamiliar code written by team members.
• Participates in estimation process, use case specifications, reviews of test plans and test cases, requirements, and project planning.
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Documents code/processes so that any other developer is able to dive in with minimal effort.
• Develop, and operate high scale applications from the backend to UI layer, focusing on operational excellence, security and scalability.
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.).
• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality.
• Participate in a tight-knit engineering team employing agile software development practices.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network, or service operations and quality.
• Able to write, debug, and troubleshoot code in mainstream open source technologies.
• Lead effort for Sprint deliverables, and solve problems with medium complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Requirements

• 2+ years experience working with software design and Java, Python and Javascript programming languages
• 2+ years experience with software build management tools like Maven or Gradle
• 2+ years experience with HTML, CSS and frontend/web development
• 2+ years experience with software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies
• 2+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure

Skills

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)
• 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