Software Design Engineer

For this contract position, you will be part of a team whose mission is to increase the quality of client products by creating tools and processes that help ensure compliance with numerous policies for releasing software. This team is developing a unified solution to determine applicability of policies, track and facilitate completion of work associated with those policies, and integrate the entire process into a product team's schedule. Responsibilities will include design and implementation of components and/or features of a multi-tier solution ranging from client work in WPF, communications with a Back End server, services programming, and database programming.

The SDE in this position will be expected to provide design feedback/ideas, estimates, and work quickly and efficiently to implement designs. The team uses agile/scrum, they typically develop out scenarios vs. specific sub-systems, so the candidate could expect to frequently switch between work in numerous areas of the system, both client and service. All work will be done in C#/.Net and must follow team standards for coding and unit testing.

OVERVIEW

- Work closely with other team members in dev/test/PM on the design and implementation of components/features.
- Maintain a high quality bar for product changes in a fast-paced environment.
- Interact with product teams to understand their requirements.
- Use scrum for project management and incremental delivery of features.
- Impact the bottom line by increasing quality and compliance while significantly reducing the costs associated with releasing software.

REQUIREMENTS

- Very strong C#/.NET coding skills
- Object-oriented design
- Use of design patterns
- SQL Server, WPF (XAML), and/or WCF skills a plus
- Ability to create unit tests for all features implemented