Senior Platform Software Developer

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What We'll Bring:

At TransUnion, we have a welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration and innovation we’re – consistently exploring new technologies and tools to be agile. This environment gives our people the opportunity to hone current skills and build new capabilities, while discovering their genius.
This position will be responsible of working closely with diverse engineering and product teams to ensure features delivery that are part of the OneTru Platform team.
The Senior Developer is a key role bringing technical expertise to ensure the quality and accuracy of the TU products. The engineer filling this role will be responsible for build the software that expands existing product features or creates new product functionality for our customers.
We are looking for engineers that thrive on constantly learning new technologies, are self-motivated and have a high level of engagement. Strong programming and software design skills are essential, as are troubleshooting complex technical issues.
This is a remote position for candidates in Costa Rica, which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

What You'll Bring:

• Works with an agile team to develop, test, and maintain cloud and desktop business applications.

• Contribute to all phases of the development environment.

• Design, develop and implement enterprise scale solutions to support the organization’s business strategy and goals.

• Review requirements and data models and translate into responsible applications and architecture.

• Ensure designs are compliant with specifications.

• Guide and support team members by reviewing code & pair-programing.

• Ensure code and repository best practices.

• Demonstrate the ability to identify and resolve complex issues that span multiple technology components.

• Write well defined testable/unit-tested code.

• Supports deployment of solutions in multi-environment configurations.

• Support improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for review.

• Work closely with System Architects to ensure smooth integration of 3rd party engines.

• Resolve technical issues and bring in innovation that improves scalability and performance of products.

• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.

• Participate in platform and application architecture discussions, ensuring that all architectures support the operational excellence initiatives and will comply with defined KPIs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor´s degree in computer science, information technology or STEM field preferred. Relevant experience or degree in progress will be accepted in lieu of degree.

• 5+ years of Software Development experience.

• Advanced in English (Speaking, writing, and reading).

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to provide mentorship, code review and/or design review to others on Scrum teams.

• Strong knowledge of programming language - Java (4+ years)/Scala/Javascript.

• Skills in Python, Bash or similar scripting languages. 

• Experience with Java frameworks including Spring Boot, REST.

• Knowledge of the Cloud concepts, hands on experience with AWS, GCP is a plus.

• Knowledge of Git and version control. 

• Knowledge of any relational database and one of the NoSQL database. 

• Knowledge of Web frameworks like Vue, React or Angular.

• Proven track-record providing software design and development for multiple areas.

• Excellent skills in front end (GUI and web development).

• Experience with Continuous Deployment, Infrastructure as Code, Automated Testing, Automated Configuration Management.

• Worked with large scale data processing systems like Hadoop, Map Reduce or Spark.

• Cloud Architect or Cloud Engineer certification is a plus.

Impact You'll Make:

• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills.

• Willingness to work and learn about new technologies.

• Ability to adjust to rapid changes in deadlines and priorities.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to multi-task.

• To be successful you are self-motivated; driven to achieve and exceed expectations.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Developer, Software Development