About the Position

Senior Engineer

Austin, Texas / Anywhere in the USA

Innovation Development Center – Back End

Full-time / Hybrid

About the Company

Qvest US is the global leader in technology and business consulting for the Media & Entertainment and Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail industries. We strategize, advise, design, develop, and implement future-forward business & technology solutions. With expertise in digital media supply chain, data & analytics, IP & rights management, broadcast transformation, Salesforce, and applied AI, our exceptionally talented teams partner with Fortune 1,000 companies to revolutionize markets and set new industry standards.

About the IDC

The IDC is our Innovation and Development Center. We build custom software using modern technologies to solve complex business problems for our clients. We believe the best products and services are realized by knowledgeable, tight-knit teams aligned to a shared purpose and understanding.

Who We're Seeking

You are an innovative and thoughtful self-starter who enjoys solving problems and thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments. You are looking for a role where you can shape best practices, mentor team members, work on varied projects, and influence technologies and solutions for both Qvest internal and client external projects. You thrive in environments where you're able to demonstrate technical competency while working individually, closely with team members, or directly with our clients.

Self-driven engineers who love to identify and experiment with new approaches, technologies, or tools that will impact our projects or industry. Examples could include emergent architectural approaches, new cloud provider offerings, or productivity enhancers (new tooling, Chat-GPT, Co-Pilot, or similar).

Responsibilities

Provide leadership within software teams; as a mentor, team-lead, trusted client-facing technologist, and/or as a hands-on contributor.
Impact all phases of our projects and all phases of the SDLC.
Leverage your existing depth of knowledge to maximize your impact.
Grow into new and/or adjacent technologies and domains to broaden your impact.

Requirements

5+ years in software development, including working in teams.
Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or XP.
Deep knowledge in the language and library/framework ecosystems of Java, JavaScript/Typescript, or Python.
Experience in defining and utilizing software development best practices.
Definition and utilization of CI/CD pipelines.
Architectural patterns that balance scope and scale of project needs.
Identification and mediation of technical debt within a code base over time.
Deep knowledge in building high-quality, scalable, and production-ready software, such as:
- Services with well-defined APIs utilizing REST, GraphQL, messaging, or similar.
- Data Pipelines to integrate systems, enable analytics, or similar.
- Web Applications utilizing modern technology approaches.
- Mobile Applications that are built with cross-platform development in mind.
Experience constructing systems by composing smaller components. The breadth could include:
- Definition of work units that can be implemented in an efficient, additive way.
- SOA, Microservices, or similar architectural patterns.
- Separation of concerns via good OOP and/or FP design.
Experience managing data. The breadth could include:
- Design of database schema, constraints, and transaction boundaries.
- Read/Write design trade-off decisions and how it relates to mutable vs. immutable data state.
- Use of Relational vs NoSQL stores for appropriate use cases.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, business administration, or other related fields.

Nice to Have

Hands-on experience developing with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
Hands-on experience with varied compute technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, etc.).
Hands-on experience with pipeline definitions (Gitlab-ci, Circle, Travis, etc.).
Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code technologies (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, etc.).

We Offer

Competitive salary: $80,000 - $400,000 a year.
Travel Requirements: Employees are responsible for traveling to and from client sites as required by their project or assignment, regardless of location. Travel may include sites outside the employee’s primary office location, state, or region.
Remote & Hybrid Work: While remote or hybrid work may be permitted for certain projects, client needs take precedence. Employees are expected to report onsite at the client location when required by the project scope, client request, or management directive.
A wide selection of benefits including medical, dental & vision, 401k matching, and flexible vacation.
Sponsorship of training to advance our teams’ skill sets.
Prioritization of our employees’ professional growth paths.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Qvest is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qvest applies this stance to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay, or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including internships, at all levels of employment.

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