Software Engineer II

About PDI

For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites.

The Opportunity

Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the highest standards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive software engineer, an advocate of agile development practices, and a proponent of continuous improvement? Well if this is you, then join and energetic team of engineers building next generation development applications for PDI!

You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we drive to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend & implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of our products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of status and supported in their roles.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments and learning a variety of programming languages.

Primary Responsibilities

· Participate in design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles

· Actively develop software solutions for PDI products

· Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements

· Use a disciplined approach in an Agile environment to assist in analysis and determination of preferred solutions to technical challenges

· Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions

· Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems

· Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans

· Work with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature work

· Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization

Qualifications

· 2-5 years’ experience designing and developing new or maintaining existing software applications in a software product development environment

· Proficiency required in all of the following: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL, JavaScript Web Frameworks (e.g. Angular,React, Vue), Messaging Systems(Kafka, Active MQ)

· Familiarity with the Eclipse or IntelliJ IDE and the use of AWS Cloud Services, Jira, BitBucket

· 1+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologies

· Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action

· Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms

· Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team

· Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines

· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure

· Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority

· Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions

· Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures

· Computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures & algorithms

· Experience of NoSQL (Cassandra and/or Redis) and RDBMS(preferably Postgres) databases

· Familiar with secure coding practices and OWASP TOP 10

· Familiar with developing containerized applications in the AWS Cloud

· Experience working with IDM provider (Auth0), SONAR, Gradle is a plus

EEO Statement

PDI’s employee oriented culture provides a supportive and dynamic work environment for high achievers. PDI seeks individuals who value continuous learning, hold high ethical standards, and are top performers in their respective field. We offer competitive wages, professional development, superb culture, and an extensive life enriching benefits package. To review the opportunities available at PDI please visit our career site at https://www.pditechnologies.com. PDI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We verify employment eligibility for all new-hires using e-Verify.