Sr. Software Engineer

 

Meteorcomm, a global telecommunications company that provides data communications solutions and services for the railroad industry. Meteorcomm is looking for (a) Sr. Software Engineer to support our growing team based out of the Renton area.

 

Summary:

 

In this new role, you will be responsible for the development activities on the messaging portion of the Positive Train Control (PTC) Communication System (“the communication system”). This includes the development activities including design, development, testing, the creation of test/deployment tools and documentation. It also includes hands-on environment setup, development, issue triage and debugging in order to create and maintain an on-site expertise in the messaging software. The messaging software and tools are to be written in Java and targeted to run on the RHEL 7.x platforms.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Dedicates most of their time to the development of a new application.

• Set programming standards.

• Develops recommendations regarding further definition of development standards and application architecture principles.

• When scheduled candidate is prepared to address system problems during off hours with minimal guidance from other members of the development staff as needed.

• Translates high-level requirements into detailed technical designs, and leads design sessions and code walk-throughs

• Ability to accurately and concisely provides technical estimates.

• Leading research efforts and evaluating PTC related technologies, and building Proof of Concepts

 

Required Qualifications:

 

• Demonstrated expertise in Java development (history of documenting code, writing technical designs and developing user documentation).

• Experience with Red Hat JBOSS AMQ.

• Experience using UNIX and Linux.

• Knowledge of source control systems such as Git.

• Experience with Agile Methodology.

• History of documenting code, writing technical designs and developing user documentation.

• Experience with using coding standards, and employing code review procedures.

• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new skills.

• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.t

• Ability to handle multiple tasks.

• Demonstrated SW architecture and design and design documentation.

 

Desired Qualifications:

 

• Familiarity with the Red Hat MRG product.
• Familiarity with SNMP, DHCP, UDP, TCP.
• Familiarity with Linux (RHEL 6.x & 7.x) development.
• Familiarity with network security.
• Experience with cucumber, ruby, python, cucumber, Docker, and OpenShift

 

Minimum Education & Experience:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience required. 

• 7+ years of application development required
• 7+ years of programming experience using Object Oriented Programming
• 5+ years experience in writing and debugging multithread applications

 

 

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