Software Engineer

Job Description

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