Associate Software Engineer

Responsibilities:
Influences others within the work area through explanation of facts, policies, and practices.
Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with moderate impact on work area.
Works with direct supervision on projects / assignments. Sets objectives for own area of responsibility to meet the objectives or goals of projects and assignments.
Problems and issues faced are general and may require understanding of broader set of issues.
Problems may span a range of issues or work areas and are typically solved through exercise of discretion and / or judgment, drawing from prior experiences, with analysis of the issue
Responsible for making minor changes or enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of work area.
Communicates with parties within and outside of own team.
Explains policies, practices, and procedures of the work area to others within the organization, influencing decision- makers with recommended courses of action.

Qualifications:
Technical Knowledge/Skill:
Effectively uses code version control systems such as git
Understands basic programming and OOP concepts
Understands core application development patterns
Experienced using data structures
Familiar with traditional data stores
Familiar with REST API syntax and tools for documenting and testing the REST APIs such as Swagger and Postman
Familiar with Agile methodology
Theoretical knowledge of work area
Ability to work autonomously with limited supervision
Displays strong work ethic
Understands direction provided and implements assigned tasks effectively
Displays Project/team level impact
Troubleshoots simple engineering problems by checking logs, using developer tools and debugger effectively
Able to use existing knowledge of algorithms, structures and patterns to design and implement solutions of light to moderate complexity.
Objectively evaluates whether they've met their goals.
Communicates effectively during meetings
Completes work or raises roadblocks in a timely manner
Open to change and learning new skills to get work done
Accepts feedback graciously and learns from experience.
Shows respect towards other team members

Education:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Experience:
Minimum of 1 to 3 years of relevant experience
Requires theoretical to advanced knowledge of work area typically obtained through University Degree combined with experience.
Relevant programming languages does not refer to languages such as Excel Macros, Word Macros, etc.
Examples of relevant databases are SQL Server, Oracle, PostgresSQL
Examples of relevant development tools are Python, Java. C#, Visual Basic, HTML, JavaScript, JSON etc.