About the position
As our Software Engineer, you will be responsible for working closely with the business community to understand the business processes and needs/requirements of business clients. With minimum guidance, you will develop, analyze, and document changes required in the IT systems to fulfill requirements submitted by the users/business partners for our eCommerce environment. This is an on-site position in Omaha, Nebraska.
Responsibilities
- Interprets design documents, completes analysis and creates designs on simple to moderate projects under general supervision
- Provides level of effort estimation on completing code, unit testing
- Oversees small projects
- Conducts design walk throughs on own work
- Codes, tests, and debugs moderately complex programming projects from detailed specifications independently with limited supervision across one or more platforms
- Write unit tests for code changes and assists in QA testing
- Provide status reports on assigned projects
- Create design documents, Unit test scripts and User manuals
- Participates with team members in estimating resource requirements, project/sprint planning and scheduling for development projects
- Abides by all policies and procedures of Oriental Trading Company
- Maintains regular and predictable attendance
- Must be able to attend face to face meetings on short or little advance notice
- Work requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors
- Participates in regularly rotated on-call duties: Must be available 24 hours/day to receive calls from Operators/Users, investigate and solve issues while on call
- Assist in defect incident report, determine root cause and resolution
- Performs other duties and projects as assigned
Requirements
- Possess an understanding of business applications and design techniques
- Must possess communication skills that will help in determining customer’s exact needs and in disseminating that information to appropriate personnel
- Ability to become proficient in the daily operations at Oriental Trading Company
- Knowledge of application development/maintenance for services and executable applications
- Knowledge of source control software and dump analysis techniques
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and tools like AWS EC2, AWS S3, etc.
- Able to use advanced system utilities (TAATOOLS, Job Scheduler, APIs, etc.). Can use new utilities relying only on manuals
- Understanding of System Analysis, Design, and System Integration
- Moderate knowledge Java EE Technologies (ranging from EJB to JSP), HTML, CSS and XML
- Spring Framework and Visual Basic experience preferred
- Some experience in testing techniques and able to learn testing requirements of systems supported
- Knowledge of applications development/maintenance for interactive and batch programming (e.g. Java or RPG)
- Knowledge of modes of data/file transfer protocols or mechanisms (e.g. FTP, JDBC, etc.)
- Moderate knowledge Oracle DB or PostgreSQL
Nice-to-haves
- Spring Framework and Visual Basic experience preferred
Benefits
- Join us at Oriental Trading, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, where fun means business!
