Software Engineer

The Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions or components. He/she would work as part of a collaborative team, participating in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing. His/her daily routine would involve writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following best practices and coding standards. Additionally, he/she would participate in code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and implement enhancements or fixes as needed. Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work both independently and within a team are essential qualities for this role.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Attend team meetings, scrum sessions, code reviews etc. to discuss progress updates, challenges, and strategies for improving the development process.
• Work on feature development effectively and coordinate with other teams regarding own JIRA items, wherever needed. Be proactive, make sure all requirements are available, communicate with QA, provide all documentation when and where required.
• Communicate effectively with senior developers when working on JIRAs.
• Create and maintain technical documentation of their own JIRA items, including design documents and API specifications so that there is no gap in understanding and usage of the feature among all the stakeholders.
• Maintain their JIRAs up to date by adding all the required details like sprint, status, label, fix version, parent etc., add regular work progress detail so that it reflects correct status of the JIRA.
• Provide session on the features developed by them to the Product Management and other stakeholders.
• Be resilient, look for different ways to solve a problem, work with minimal supervision.
• Acquire the ability to work on different components of the product, gain knowledge on different technologies we use.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies, tools, industry trends, current used domains, and best practices.
• Use or suggest these wherever these can help in achieving our product goals.
• Participate in code reviews, follow coding standards and best practices to ensure code quality, readability, and maintainability.
• Write and execute test cases to ensure the quality and reliability of the code. This involves unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
• Suggest new dev tools to help improve quality.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or similar field.
• Minimum 2+ years of working experience in one or more from Java, Kotlin, Angular etc.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Familiar with Core and advanced programming concepts like memory management, multi-threading, processes, collections, etc.
• Understanding of common developer tool sets such as XML, JSON, REST, Shell, etc.
• Basic knowledge of design patterns.
• Good knowledge of one or more databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server etc. and database connectivity through Java applications.
• Good to have working experience with one or more frameworks like Spring, Hibernate etc.
• Good to have basic knowledge Cloud (AWS, GCS or Azure. Basic idea preference)
• Hands-on experience with Linux system administration.
• Good English communication skills to collaborate with distributed teams.
• Analytical thinker with problem solving aptitude.

PKWARE, Inc. is…

PKWARE offers the only data discovery and protection solution that locates and secures sensitive data to minimize organizational risks and costs, regardless of device or environment. Our ultra-efficient, scalable software is simple to use on a broad range of data types and repositories, enabling precise, automated visibility and control of personal data, even in the fastest-moving, most complex IT environments. With more than 1,200 customers, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies, PKWARE continues to innovate as an award-winning global leader in data discovery, security, and compliance. To learn more, visit PKWARE.com.