Job
Description
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Summary / Role Purpose
The R&D Engineer is responsible for the development of software products and supporting systems. In this role, the R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Participates in planning, architecture, and research
- Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including user experience, software design and solver research
- Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
- Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
- Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
- Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities
- May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 3 years experience, MS with 2 years experience, or PhD with 1 year experience
- Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies as well as cloud and web-based services.
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with object-oriented design (for example, C# or Java), scripting languages (for example, Python or Javascript), development of cloud-based services, as well as API specification and design
- Technical knowledge with web development (NodeJS), development for scalability and performance, data analytics and reporting, identity and authentication services, as well as data structures and algorithms
- Passion for crafting robust and efficient code
- Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
- Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team