What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer II position at H-E-B?
Responsibilities
Job Summary: As a Software Engineer II, you'll deliver complex code solutions. You'll contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, application performance, and provide end-to-end support.
Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions
Work Experience
Qualifications & Key Requirements:
Physical Demands & Working Conditions:
Last revised: 11/01/2024
Job Summary: As a Software Engineer II, you'll deliver complex code solutions. You'll contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, application performance, and provide end-to-end support.
Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions
- Works on defined technology projects / tasks with occasional guidance
- Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors.
- Creating, configuring, and supporting build and deployment pipelines.
- Capable of on-call support, debugging, and troubleshooting moderately complex issues within team services. May seek guidance from more senior engineers for more complex issues.
- Grows technical skills and experience, starting to lead small initiatives independently.
- Able to collaborate across teams, learning how to influence within the team, and serve as mentor for more junior engineers.
- Recommends changes to processes and tools at the team level based on industry standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Able to navigate more complex work that may span multiple systems.
- Able to partially diagnose problems that occur around the scope of work in which they operate.
- Ensures stories are appropriately sized for accurate estimation, continuous integration, and incremental delivery with help from the team.
- Seeks out and defines work. Understands and acts according to task prioritization.
- Identifies and communicates dependencies and blockers within the team. Escalates any blockers, or delays to their team daily.
- Able to manage appropriate amount of work and works with teammates both to ensure they understand priority and urgency, and to deliver upon them accordingly.
- Contributes to root cause analysis and gives input on how to remediate future issues.
- Able to quickly identify who needs to be engaged to help resolve an issue and escalate issues when appropriate.
- Learns to implement effective system monitoring.
Work Experience
Qualifications & Key Requirements:
- 2 years of experience in software development and in specific area of assignment
- Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
- Conversant in the technology stack of the system/services of the team.
- Able to review others' code for the strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential.
- Strong understanding of coding standards and design principles / patterns and Lean Startup or Agile development methodologies
- For Backend Software Engineer, working knowledge of relevant technologies (e.g., React, Node, PHP, MySQL, reactive programming, Java, Python)
- For Backend Software Engineer, understanding of systems architecture technologies (e.g., Android, iOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Docker)
- For Android, familiarity with build and release procedures, tools (e.g., Kotlin, Kotlin Flow, Compose, Coroutines, GraphQL)
- For Android, familiarity with analyzing memory and performance issues using profiling tools.
- For iOS, familiarity with build and release procedures, tools (e.g., Swift, Xcode, SwiftUI, Combine, Swift Concurrency, GraphQL)
- Familiarity with analyzing memory and performance issues using profiling tools.
- For Engineer in Test, working knowledge of relevant technologies (e.g., Playwright, XCTest, Espresso, Saucelabs, Locust, JUnit)
- High degree of personal accountability to self and team for continued growth
- Ability to operate independently while owning your effect on the organization.
- Resilient and optimistic when faced with the unexpected can manage most ambiguity within scope of daily work and is willing to learn how to proactively disambiguate requirements.
- Team player - Actively learning the team's domain by asking questions, sharing knowledge with their teammates, and contributing to their team's documentation. Collaborates well with team and partners outside the team (Product Management, Design, QA, etc.)
- Committed to adding value by supporting the team, contributing your perspective, and committing to the right amount of work.
- Growth Mindset - Ability to fail-forward, ask questions, apply coaching, and show a genuine desire to learn, grow, and teach. Serves as a model for more junior engineers and consistently demonstrates team, organization, and company values in daily work.
- Self-starter - Proactive in seeking out help when unclear about priority and dependencies; take initiative to learn the team, the work, and the business.
- Impact - Understands area of work and shares knowledge with others. Generously shares opinions, feelings, constructive feedback, and gives credit where it is due.
- Connect - Learning to facilitate conversations to make sure all viewpoints are represented, and that bias is understood. Listens to opposing perspectives and works toward the best solution for all.
- A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
Physical Demands & Working Conditions:
- Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
- Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
- Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed
Last revised: 11/01/2024