Software Engineer

Role Overview

The Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and releasing applications, platform capabilities, and integrations that support the organization’s technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the design and development of new solutions, as well as enhancements, updates, and issue resolution for existing systems.
• Contribute across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with a focus on development, testing, troubleshooting, and debugging.
• Follow established coding standards and best practices, contributing through hands-on coding.
• Develop unit tests and automated test scripts in support of a test-driven development (TDD) approach.
• Leverage coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) for code generation, review, and test creation (good to have).
• Build rapid prototypes and proof of concepts (POCs) to validate new ideas and solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (preferred).
• Typically 2+ years of experience developing products and platforms using front-end, back-end, or full-stack technologies.
• Technical Skills & Competencies:
• Core Engineering Skills: Strong understanding of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in a cloud-native environment. Experience developing software using Java, Python, or other object-oriented programming languages. Experience with modern UI frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Architecture & Integration Experience: Event-driven architecture, end-to-end UI/API integration, API paradigms such as REST, gRPC, and GraphQL.
• Data & Platforms Knowledge: Caching technologies, database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• AI / Emerging Technologies (Preferred): Hands-on experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), generative AI technologies, AI agent development.

Additional Competencies

• Strong understanding of coding best practices, UI and back-end architectures.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and urgency.

Location & Salary

The preferred location for this role is Atlanta, GA, and the salary range for this location is $89,600.00 to $168,000.00. All qualified external applicants will be considered for an in-office role, based in Atlanta. All qualified internal candidates are encouraged to apply and consider relocation to Atlanta and may be considered for remote hire at the company’s discretion.

Benefits

The candidate’s final salary offer will be based on the candidate’s skills, education, work location and experience. A candidate’s compensation may also include bonuses consistent with TriNet’s corporate bonus plan. Additionally, subject to applicable eligibility requirements, TriNet offers permanent full-time employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, life and disability insurance, a 401(K) savings plan, an employee stock purchase plan, eleven (11) Company observed holidays, PTO and a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information about our benefits offerings: https://www.trinet.com/documents/blt5b61a1040aae1904.