What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at Equifax?
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.
What You’ll Do
What You’ll Do
- Perform general application development activities, including unit testing, code deployment to development environment and technical documentation.
- Work on one or more projects, making contributions to unfamiliar code written by team members.
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues.
- Participate in the estimation process, use case specifications, reviews of test plans and test cases, requirements, and project planning.
- Document 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.
- Write, debug, and troubleshoot code in mainstream open source technologies
- Lead effort for Sprint deliverables, and solve problems with medium complexity
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 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 software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies
- 2 years experience with Cloud technology: AWS , GCP or Azure
- 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.
- Familiarity with the Perl ecosystem (CPAN, Catalyst, Mojolicious) is a significant plus.
- 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