Position Title: Software Engineer
Employee Status: Contract to Hire
Location: Omaha, NE
Purpose: As our Software Engineer, you will be responsible for working closely with the business community to understand the business processes and needs/requirements of business clients. With minimum guidance, you will develop, analyze, and document changes required in the IT systems to fulfill requirements submitted by the users/business partners for our eCommerce environment.
Responsibilities: - Possess an understanding of business applications and design techniques
- Must possess communication skills that will help in determining customer's exact needs and in disseminating that information to appropriate personnel
- Ability to become proficient in the daily operations at Oriental Trading Company
- Knowledge of application development/maintenance for services and executable applications
- Knowledge of source control software and dump analysis techniques
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and tools like AWS EC2, AWS S3, etc.
- Able to use advanced system utilities (TAATOOLS, Job Scheduler, APIs, etc.). Can use new utilities relying only on manuals
- Understanding of System Analysis, Design, and System Integration
- Moderate knowledge Java EE Technologies (ranging from EJB to JSP), HTML, CSS and XML
- Spring Framework and Visual Basic experience preferred
- Some experience in testing techniques and able to learn testing requirements of systems supported
- Knowledge of applications development/maintenance for interactive and batch programming (e.g. Java or RPG)
- Knowledge of modes of data/file transfer protocols or mechanisms (e.g. FTP, JDBC, etc.)
- Moderate knowledge Oracle DB or PostgreSQL
Work Requirements, Experience, Education, and Skills: - Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics and communication or closely related field required
- Minimum two years of experience with application development, software QA, or related field
- Ability to perform the job in a safe manner