Lead Software Engineer at Equifax Inc. in Alpharetta, Georgia

Job Description:

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy, diverse 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.

What You'll Do -

• You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
  
• You will manage individual project priorities, deadlines and work you're doing.
  
• You have the ability to translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
  
• You will need extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks.
  
• You are part of a community and participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
  
• You have a real passion for innovation! Any experience with Cloud Platforms like AWS, GCP and Deploying and automating infrastructure/applications using Chef, RPM, Docker, AWS (ECS, ECR), Terraform, etc. will help us on our exciting journey.
  
• You have experience in overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.
  
• Depending on level, you may work with product owners, UX and other business partners to define work for the team.
  
• You enjoy mentoring other engineers, having a voice in defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team (depending on level).
  
• Will take part in occasional off-hours production support.
  

Must Haves -

• BS or MS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required.
  
• 5+ years of leading a development team and performing project management in an Agile environment using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket.
  
• 5+ years of UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular 4/5 and Bootstrap).
  
• 5+ years of backend development with modern JDK (Java/j2ed v1.7+) or Python or Scala.
  
• 5+ Cloud computing, SaaS (Software as a Service).
  
• 5+ years of experience working with open source frameworks; preferably Spring, though we would also consider Ruby, Apache Struts, Symfony, Django, etc.
  

Extra Points for any of the Following -

The list below is extensive, which is indicative of the number of technologies we currently use across our projects and also highlights the size of the diverse opportunities we can offer you. While we wouldn't expect anyone to know of all of these, if your experience includes some of the below, we would love to talk to you:

• You can write very high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain.
  
• You adore working in a fast paced and agile development environment.
  
• You have the ability to operate across a broad and complex business unit with multiple stakeholders.
  
• Experience working in the financial services industry.
  
• You have an understanding of the key aspects of finance especially as related to Technology, specifically including total cost of ownership and value.
  
• You are a self-starter, highly motivated, and have a real passion for actively learning and researching new methods of work and new technology.
  
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including business leaders.
  
• You are interested and able to learn other coding languages as needed.
  
• Design patterns.
  
• Big Data, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4J).
  
• Software development best practices such as TDD (e.g. JUnit), automated testing (e.g. Gauge, Cucumber, FitNesse), continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, GoCD).
  

We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, 401k matching, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don't delay, apply today - we're looking for you!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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