Job Description

Nice to meet you! 

We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence – and questions into answers. 

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here. 

About the job

The Decisioning R&D team is looking for a Senior Associate Software Developer to join a team of talented engineers working collaboratively to ideate and deliver leading edge, innovative products and solutions that enable SAS customers to deploy analytics with business rules in new ways. You will contribute to projects spanning a diverse set of technologies and industries.

As a Senior Associate Software Developer, you will:

• Develop software with browser-based technologies and REST services using cloud native services and SAS’s internal API’s 
• Design and develop high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines. 
• Be aware of and adhere to R&D best practices and processes. 
• Participate in project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alerts stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing completion of task 
• Ensure the quality of the code you write through the development of automated tests (unit, performance, user interface). 
• Conduct code reviews to ensure integrity and cross-product consistency. 
• Maintain accountability for the entire life cycle of the code including support for both internal and external consumers. 
• In collaboration with technical writers, authors appropriate level of design and technical documentation that satisfies both internal and external consumers. 
• Work with multiple operating systems and anticipate technical anomalies and enhancements for various environments.
• Perform testing of software; verifies, tracks, and fixes "bugs"; modifies software design, as necessary. 

Required qualifications

• 2 years of experience contributing across the full Software Development Life Cycle in any combination of areas of the software development stack 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• You are proficient in one of our core languages: Java, JavaScript or Go 
• You have a strong desire to learn how to contribute at all layers of the software stack where you have not contributed already in your career 
• You have experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery tools such as Git/Gerrit/Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, or similar 
• You have experience with both Windows and Linux. 
• You have experience with agile software development
• An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Preferred qualifications

• You have experience in a modern frontend framework such as React or Angular 
• You have experience with the Spring Framework 
• You have experience with writing SQL and one or more major RDBMS such as Postgres or Oracle 
• You have experience with building and orchestrating containers using technologies such as docker and Kubernetes 
• You have experience with cloud architectures and at least one major public cloud provider. Preferably Azure. 
• You have experience using IDE’s

World-class benefits 

Highlights include... 

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans. 
• Medical plan options include… 
• PPO with low annual deductible and copays. 
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center). 
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge! 
• An industry-leading 401k plan. 
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1. 
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days. 
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees 

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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