Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Maintaining and troubleshooting production systems which are supporting internal and external customers
• Takes part in production systems evaluation and software-support troubleshooting
• Producing documentation to support other developers and internal teams within Cofense
• Generating test cases and producing a testable and tested software product
• Staying current with the latest techniques and tools used within the software development industry
• Understanding the approach and design decisions and creating an implementation that supports overall design
• Working with other engineers on the team, particularly more junior engineers through pair programming, open communications, and collaboration
• Actively participate in both Agile and Waterfall development life-cycle(s), including planning and grooming, stand-up, and retrospectives
• Proactively perform code reviews, give feedback, and ask questions
• Expeditiously resolve software bugs with appropriate criticality
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Works well with others, capable of working constructively with a group of people that have different skill sets and interests. Effective at communication
• Ability to work independently and take initiative as a member of a dynamic and fast-moving team.
• Knowledge and experience using Spring and dependency injection in general.
• Knowledge and experience using JPA / Hibernate.
• Knowledge and experience using relational database systems especially PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Knowledge and experience using Elasticsearch as a developer as well as designing indexes and search clusters for efficient search across massive data sets.
• Knowledge and experience using PHP
• Knowledge and experience using HTML
• Knowledge and experience using CSS
• Knowledge and experience using Jquery
• Knowledge and experience using MariaDB
• Ability to comfortably do full stack development from backend systems to user interfaces as necessary.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Experience and comfort developing large scale distributed applications using Java (core, concurrency, threading)
• Knowledge and experience using Spring and Hibernate
• Knowledge and experience in web development and PHP
• LMS development experience a plus
• Experience with Moodle plugins a HUGE plus
• Experience working with RESTful APIs with data validation techniques