Senior Engineer at Sage

Job Description    

• The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long term objectives using the identified architecture.
• The Senior Software Engineer will assume ownership in the design, develop and delivery of high quality products and/or systems and services that exceed customers’ or business partners’ expectations and will proactively share their own knowledge for specific technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.
• Key Responsibilities    Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of software development to the completion of difficult assignments.
• Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
• Work with product managers early on to shape product definition so that it can be built in flexible, extensible, and robust way
• Keep up to date with relevant technology areas.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Evaluates progress and results and recommends major changes in procedures.
• Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments
• Thought leader and deliver deep technical expertise for PD that drives colleague engagement, clarity and instils a culture of innovation and execution
• Work cross-functionally with various Sage teams: product management, QA/XD, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results
• Mentoring and coaching to junior members of the development team.
• Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics
• Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers
• Extensive experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.

Skills, know-how and experience:
Must have:

• Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of both traditional desktop and cloud software development.
• Ability to interpret and document user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ that will ensure valuable contribution to any team within days of joining the team
• Very good in spoken and written English

Preferred:

• 5+ years relevant professional experience, Payroll and/or financial domain expertise is an advantage
• Innovative and creative thinking, willingness to contribute
• Atlassian Collaboration Tool Jira & Confluence