Brooksource is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Fortune 500 Financial Services client. In this role, the Software Engineer will assist in building a new Payments Platform. This is a top priority, enterprise wide project and there's a lot of new capabilities to add. Tech stack and dev tools are Node.js, Typescript, Kafka, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Kubernetes. Their automated test suite utilizes Jest, Testcontainers, Localstack, and ArtilleryJS.

The EPN program has several agile-scrum teams that operate together as a part of a program organized using the Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe). On your scrum team there will be engineers holding roles as scrum master, devops, QA, and leads. We have a testing group outside the teams as well that help us coordinate and test the larger platform and integrating teams. There are also designers, architects, and program managers working outside the team to help build the runway of work coming to your team.

We’re looking for a developer with a passion for QA to assist our developers writing automated tests against the APIs the team is building as their Software Development Engineer in Test. This is not manual testing. The right candidate would be able to take on development work as well.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Expected to understand how our APIs interact with other systems not owned by our team, and mock or impersonate the behavior of those systems with code.
• Builds, enhances, and supports those digital products alongside a scrum team, pairing as appropriate.
• Conduct automated tests and follow QA best practices and can comfortably flex into QA tester roles as needed for the team.
• Work within a scrum team on new feature development or bug resolution.
• Regularly participates in code reviews both as a reviewer and the person requesting to merge code.
• Provides feedback to other team members to improve code quality.
• Regularly work with Architect, Product Manager, Design leads to help design new system-wide capabilities and help ensure your team builds towards your solutions.
• Build automated tests for the team that validate API behavior meets our story’s acceptance criteria. At times build these tests ahead of the development team to help spread understanding of the expected behavior.
• Be able to take a non-descript bug report, investigate it, and recreate the behavior with an automated test written in TypeScript.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Personal development projects and 4-5 years of professional experience, 3-5 of which is with relevant engineering tools
• Strong technical skills closely applicable to our tech stack. Confidence in your ability to pickup our stack with the help of learning tools and team.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning
• Experience developing solutions using agile methods
• Able to dissect problems, design solutions, break them down so yourself and a team can build them out
• Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

About Brooksource

Brooksource provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 3 years
• 4 years
• 5 years
• 6 years
• 7 years
• 8 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• No weekends

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Milwaukee, WI 53202