Volkswagen Of America - Reston, VA
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time
Reston, VA
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About the position
The Software Developer II - Backend at Electrify America will focus on developing and maintaining backend systems that support the company's electric vehicle charging hardware. This role involves creating high-quality software solutions, managing APIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal performance and security of web applications. The position is integral to the software development lifecycle and requires a commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Develop and refactor high-quality reliable, secure, and performing code
- Develop unit tests covering the entirety of the code base
- Perform regular code reviews, identify improvements for readability, maintainability, security, performance and other aspects of code quality
- Regularly participate in Agile rituals and assist in work sizing/estimation
- Participate in the secure development lifecycle leveraging best development practices
- Continuously evaluate current code base to identify risks and technical debt, implement improvements
- Optimize Solutions for scalability, speed and resiliency
- Create, test, enhance and manage APIs that work across devices, including with external partners
- Meet regularly and work closely with internal and external developers (including front-end and UI/UX), project managers and Technology team members to develop modern innovative software solutions to address user needs and business goals with prioritizing overall quality and security
- Support functional, performance, scalability, cybersecurity and other testing
- Configure backend usability of frontend applications
- Review and analyze and triage bugs/issues and create long-term solutions tackling into account module dependencies and operating constraints
- Work alongside the DevOps team to use and evolve the CI/CD pipeline
- Help build, maintain and improve upon a system architecture that supports frequent enhancements and updates
- Continuously learn to stay ahead of the technology trends and innovate relentlessly
- Develop and document technical designs and specifications associated with the software modules
- Write and maintain technical documentation in Confluence or other tools
- Attend and/or lead technical meetings with other Developers and Vendors
- Mentor junior developers and promote robust architecture and best development practices
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field
- Strong proven experience and success record developing distributed and cloud-native SOA back end applications
- Experience developing and managing APIs
- Proficiency in backend coding/development using Java and working knowledge of Python, Javascript
- Proficiency using no-sql databases such as MongoDB; experience using Postgres
- Knowledge of backend frameworks, such as Spring Boot, Redis, and similar
- Basic understanding of at least one front-end tech such as Java/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, to support efficiency and alignment with front-end developers
- Knowledge of software design patterns and proven experience implementing software patterns in the application code
- Strong experience debugging the code, using tracing, logging and profiling
- Experience writing unit tests as part of an automated test harness
- Working knowledge of cryptography, secure communications, secure software development practices
- Knowledge of good coding practices and experience performing code reviews
- Familiarity with Linux command line environment
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with developing high-availability software
- Experience developing highly scalable applications
- Experience with PKI, TLS, X.509 certificates
