Senior Software Engineer

Company Information:
DataPath is a global telecommunications systems integrator specializing in satellite earth terminals and network solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Performing component development for DataPath’s current and future products. Product development responsibilities include design, development, testing and support of components that provide product functionality
  • Designing effective and robust software to be used in network management and control applications
  • Working closely with other developers and quality assurance teams through the software lifecycle, including requirements definition, development, testing, deployment and support
  • Managing the development, evolution and maintenance of client tier, middle tier, business logic components, Web services and diagnostic and support tools
  • Working as an effective team member. Participating in creating a can-do and will-do ethos
  • Communicating effectively with the company's product management, marketing, engineering, quality assurance, support and sales personnel (and others) on improvements to existing products and new product features that position the business for a competitive advantage
  • Assisting in implementing best practice product development processes that will provide customers with solutions that meet their needs on an ongoing and changing basis
  • Ensuring software projects are completed on time, on budget and according to quality standards
  • Developing product design documentation based on product specifications
  • Interacting with other departments to ensure effective, ongoing communication
  • Working with product management, quality assurance and customer support throughout the testing process to ensure that defects are appropriately addressed according to requirements and priority
  • Keeping focused on the task at hand and suggesting improvements in methodology as necessary
  • Participating in multiple, concurrent product development team projects
  • Cooperating with quality assurance, support, product management and program engineering teams to quickly, rationally and reasonably respond to escalated issues
  • Developing, delivering and testing bug fixes, patches and service releases
  • Responding to issues escalated to product development in a concrete and effective manner
  • Participating in bug, functional review and requirements triage decision-making
  • Performing product development and testing using the product in a manner as close as reasonably possible to the scenarios in which customers and partners will use the product
  • Participating in analysis, definition and refinement of customer, business and software requirements
  • Designing, developing and bug fixing of software releases as defined in project requirements
  • Producing product documentation
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent related experience
  • Six-plus years demonstrating very solid distributed software engineering experience with significant involvement in developing commercial software products and services
  • Strong in Object Oriented Development, Multithreaded applications and Internet-based technologies
  • Track record of project execution to time and budget
  • Thorough knowledge of software engineering processes and procedures and general product development principles including program design, coding, testing and debugging
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
  • Knowledge of several operating systems including Windows Server Platforms, especially Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 and Linux or Solaris
  • Extensive experience with Java development tools including open source libraries
  • Experience designing and implementing algorithms, multithreading and synchronization and performance optimization. Real-time programming experience desirable
  • Strong Java development skills along with experience in multiple programming languages
  • Experience in Web n-tier product development
  • General relational database knowledge
  • Proven ability to perform in a consultative manner with strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
  • Proven experience in product development, as well as a history of successful software engineering projects. Experience to excel within smaller companies and the ability to adapt to significant growth
  • Ability to solve tactical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables while moving towards strategic company and product goals
  • Process oriented
  • Ability to participate in software methodology and processes
  • Experience in performing software engineering for a major software product or application through a number of revisions and performing the associated processes such as user interface design, unit testing, problem tracking, triage and defect correction.
  • Knowledge of any of the following is a plus:
    • SNMP
    • Sockets - TCP/IP
    • TCL
    • Python
    • The Spring Framework
    • Echo2
    • Hibernate
    • J2EE Application Servers
    • Java RMI
    • Java JMS
    • Java Swing
    • ILOG JViews
    • Scalable Vector Graphics
    • Maven
    • Echo2 AJAX Toolkit
We offer a competitive compensation plan commensurate with experience and a full benefits package in a dynamic, growing company. Employment is contingent upon completion of a pre-employment drug screen. DataPath is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Click here to apply online for this position. Please indicate how your prior experience meets our initial requirements. Be sure to attach your resume.

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