Software Engineer

Ritchie Bros

Westchester, IL

Full Time

Senior

2 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Software Engineer, as a member of the software development team, will be focused on developing, enhancing, and maintaining the company's proprietary e-commerce software platform. The role involves working on a microservices architecture to support the buying and selling of heavy equipment, trucks, and other capital assets used by customers to run their businesses.

Key Responsibilities

Takes ownership of parts of the microservices architecture.
Provide inputs in shaping up project delivery schedule by estimating the assigned work and time that would be spent.
Identify areas that are not clearly defined, know whether to escalate to senior team members to have broader discussions, or find a technical solution on your own.
Responsible for diving into a large code base, comprehending various components, and contributing to the code base in a short period of time.
Clarifies (sometimes non-technical) requirements (or problem) descriptions, quickly locates corresponding system components, and works with other engineers to come up with technical solutions.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Prior experience building software in a professional, multi-team environment.
Skills in building and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant products.
Knowledge of Agile and the full software development lifecycle, including deployment and operation.
Be dedicated to the quality of work through unit testing, automation testing, and assisting support staff when incidents arise.
At least five (5) years of .NET Development leveraging .NET 4.x, ASP.NET, C#, MVC, Web API, SQL Server, and MySQL.
Experience with HTML5, CSS, Restful web services, JQuery, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and JSON.
Database designing, database performance, management, and tuning experience.