Software Engineer at Simply Financial Services (life insurance)

The primary focus of the role is to develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigate problem areas. Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. 

 Key Responsibilities

• Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
• Investigates problem areas.
• Follows the software development lifecycle.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors, recommending purchases, and testing and approving products.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Minimum of two years’ development experience with at least two of the following: Java, Python, or Ruby
• Experience with Java / Python / Ruby development frameworks
• Experience with using SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Experience in API Design
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Experience serving as technical lead throughout the full software development lifecycle, from conception, architecture definition, detailed design, scoping, planning, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance is preferred
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in the development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications

Knowledge and Abilities

• Analyzing information
• General programming skills
• Software design
• Software debugging
• Software documentation
• Software testing
• Problem-solving
• Teamwork
• Software development fundamentals
• Software development process
• Software requirements

Behavioural Competencies

• Excellent written and oral English communication skills 
• Excellent interpersonal and team skills
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Exceptional time and project management and the ability to juggle long and short-term deadlines in a dynamic working environment 
• Confident and ambitious with a can-do attitude