SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

WHO IS SPR?

SPR helps companies implement the right technology that helps them balance users’ expectations today while planning for tomorrow’s business demands. A technology modernization firm, SPR works together with clients to develop or modernize digital products and platforms.

We’re 200+ strategists, developers, designers, architects, consultants, thinkers, and doers in Chicago and Milwaukee. We work with 150 mid- to enterprise-size clients across industries like professional services and manufacturing. We think about the end users and rigorously apply the latest technologies and frameworks to address our clients’ needs. Specializing in custom software development, cloud, data, and user experience solutions, SPR promises to Deliver Beyond the Build by providing proactive advice, sharing knowledge, responding to change in an agile way, and investing time to deeply understand our clients’ business.

This dynamic position offers flexibility to allow some work from home and some time working with clients at their locations and our offices. We operate in a fun, casual work environment and have great benefits including competitive salary, bonuses, generous vacation time, big fitness incentives, and medical/dental/vision insurance.

We hire smart technologists and sharp business leaders who are excellent communicators and have an interest in working on multiple projects across industries to bring innovative ideas to life. By joining the SPR team, you’ll be problem solving, working hard and making an impact through your projects – and you’ll be part of a unique culture and rewarded for it.

WHAT IS THE POSITION?

As a Senior Software Engineer at SPR, you will create complex solutions and play a key technical role within the company and with clients. You will be responsible for full lifecycle development and must be able to articulate design decisions and translate business requirements/user stories into application logic as a team member or as an individual.

Our Engineers are a driving force behind the success of our projects. We're looking for a motivated self-starter who keeps an eye on trends and new technology in the industry and who is eager to tackle challenging troubleshooting and development tasks.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Full lifecycle software development and testing using modern tools and techniques
Assists with mentoring and training of mid-level engineers and other team members
Participates in new hire interview and onboarding processes
Provides input into and helps document solution designs and technical strategies
Communicates with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, and provide estimates
Attend all daily stand-up sessions, project meetings (planning, review, etc.), client demonstrations, etc.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Able to manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team
Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills
Great attitude and commitment
Ability to handle diverse situations and changing priorities
Expertise in the areas of design patterns, application architecture, distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms
Must be have expert level experience in aspects of modern software development:
Must be willing to commute to client sites throughout the Chicago land area

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

C# / ASP.Net (MVC, Web API) / WPF / WCF / ORM (Entity Framework, NHibernate) / Automated testing (Unit testing, BDD) / SPA frameworks (AngularJS, Knockout, React) / TFS / PowerShell / Visual Studio / SQL Server and SQL / NoSQL (Mongo, Raven, DocumentDB, Cassandra, Maria, Riak) / Java (Spring, Spring Boot, Guice, JPA, jUnit) / JavaScript (node.js, npm, Karma, Jasmine, Phantom) / Build tools (Gradle, Maven, Ant) / Cloud (Azure, AWS, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Mesos, DC/OS) / Python / Scala / Big Data/Fast Data (Spark, Hadoop, Akka, Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Storm, Azure Stream Analytics, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Nifi, HDFS) /ElasticSearch / DevOps tools (Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) / Machine Learning (TensorFlow) /Data Visualization (Grafana, Kibana) / IoT Frameworks

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Must be willing to commute to client sites throughout the Chicago land area
5+ years of professional experience
BA or BS, preferably in computer science, engineering, or science / technology-based discipline

If this sounds like the kind of challenge you would be up for every day, we would love to hear from you. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veteran.

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