Junior Software Engineer

Equifax

Saint Louis, MO

Full Time

Entry Level

4 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

Key Responsibilities

Design requirements on small systems or modules of medium systems (large scale) environment and technical documentation.
Apply basic principles of software engineering and can follow instructions. Provide meaningful feedback on the release process, code review, and design review.
Easily absorb and apply new information. Display a cooperative attitude and share knowledge.
Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.). Work across teams to integrate systems with existing corporate product platforms.
Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality.
Participate in a tight-knit engineering team employing agile software development practices. Leverage automation within scope of effort.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
6 months+ experience with Java software programming experience.
6 months+ experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
UI development experience (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap).
Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA, and Microservices.
Experience with source code control management systems (e.g., SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
Experience working in Agile environments (e.g., Scrum, XP).
Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL).
Experience with Atlassian tooling (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Github).
Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+).
Experience with automated testing tools such as JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI.

Nice to Have

Knowledge of managing timely delivery of engineering tasks within agile ceremonies.
Basic knowledge of design patterns and software engineering development lifecycle.
Understanding of devops, SecOps, and FinOps practices.
Knowledge of decomposing business requirements into software engineering tasks.
Curiosity about business value creation through software engineering.
Basic knowledge of latest trends within software engineering and their application.
Understanding of how systems integrate and factors affecting system availability.