Lead Software Engineer

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

The Software Engineer is a technical member of the development team.  They are responsible for designing, coding, and reviewing the work done in the team.  They participate in all aspects of the agile software development lifecycle, from inception to support.  Software Engineers embrace continuous personal improvement in their own learning process and team improvement.  Software Engineers demonstrate competence in technical decision-making and problem-solving.  They independently manage their contributions and proactively raise impediments.  They fully understand the processes and support adoption by the team. Software Engineers are a positive influence on the culture of the team and help other team members meet their objectives.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Contributes independently to multiple functional and technical areas within a product.
  • Designs and scopes new features.
  • Creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team.
• Continued ownership of technical growth including:
  • Product and business knowledge
  • Problem solving skills.
  • Technical knowledge
  • Process knowledge.
• Acts as a good citizen within the team technically and culturally.
• Ensures quality of code written or reviewed.
• Adheres to quality/technical team standards.
• Reviews code according to their expertise.
• Ensures that their deliverables meet the scheduled commitments.
• Makes decisions in their area of responsibility that help maintainability, reuse, and performance.
• Initiates conversations to get the support/clarity necessary to carry out a task.
• Constructively challenges existing perspectives and proposed solutions inside the team.
• Proactively assists in accomplishing team-level technical goals.
• Initiates knowledge sharing with other team members.
• Evaluates alignment of work with strategic initiatives and company goals.
• Able to diagnose issues and provide solutions for multiple functional and technical areas within a product.
• Can independently frame problems and perform relevant research for small (1 team-sprint) effort.

• Recommended 4+ years of relevant experience
• A Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent.
• Able to work / be available a couple hours a day that overlap with US Business Hours is a must.

Skillset

• Front-end technology: Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript / Typescript, CSS3 and HTML5 and Angular third-party libraries. 
• Development languages: Knowledge of server-side programming languages including C# /.NET (Core, Standard)
• Database and cache: Familiarity with DBMS technology: SQL Server, T-SQL
• Web Services:  Experience with SOAP, REST, JSON.
• Basic design ability: Including knowledge of UI/UX and basic prototype design.
• Programming Techniques:  experience with dependency injections,
• Development Tools:  MS Visual Studio.
• Testing:  Ability to implement Unit tests and Integration tests.  Experience with Selenium is nice to have.
• SDLC Methodology:  experience practicing the Agile methodology.
• Additional experience is a plus in the following areas:  WCF; Web Security, multithreading, MVC / MVVM, RESTful APIs, IoC Containers
• Cloud Computing platform:  Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Good writing and communication skills
• Ability to visualize a proposed system and be able to build it.

Interviews and selections are being done continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.