Software Engineer Ii

Overview:
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At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.

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Software Engineer II independently develops product features, investigates, and resolves production issues, and performs in-depth troubleshooting. They can implement complicated product stories with little help from other team members. They are involved in sprint planning and story grooming to give voice to the development complexity of new stories.

**Essential Functions/Responsibilities/Duties**
- Develop software and defect resolution independently from other team members
- Design, code, and test new platform components, features, and enhancements for our web and/or mobile platforms (Swift/Java/Kotlin)
- Triage incoming bugs and production incidents
- Perform technical operation tasks including enhancing monitoring capabilities
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues across our platform
- Participation in sprint grooming, planning, and kick-off to help estimate stories, raise awareness and additional implementation details
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Help monitor areas of production system and raise awareness to team when issues arise
- You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in._

Qualifications:
**What you bring to the**
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**Education and Experience**
- 2+ years of SW development role

**Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Experience with Java and/or.NET (or similar)
- Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of object-oriented programming
- Experience developing services and APIs
- A solid understanding of best practices for software development including testing, monitoring, and design
- Ability to articulate and champion design strategies related to scalability, maintainability, performance, security, and usability
- Strong communication skills, openness to collaborate, and enthusiasm to deliver as a part of a team
- An ability to contribute to a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers
- Unit Testing, and how to write a good unit test

**Our technology sets us apart**

You’ll be working on a platform that serves:

- Several million users with nearly 50% use daily
- 75 billion API calls and transactions a year spread across 35 services
- An engaging native mobile platform driving 85% of user traffic
- Hundreds of terabytes of data spread across multiple transactional and analytical stores

Engineers at Virgin Pulse work in small autonomous teams of technical leads, product owners, project managers, designers, and engineers collaborating with each other, across teams, to deliver unique solutions and products to the portfolio. As part of our team, you bring to the table your technical and leadership skills to help us build the latest technology in health and wellness platforms.

**Security Competencies**:
**Why work at Virgin Pulse?