Software Engineer

Position: Software Engineer

Reports To: Manager, Software Development

Department/Division: Application Development

Work Location: Glenview, IL

Job Code/Classification: Exempt

POSITION OVERVIEW
Primary responsibility is to provide technical leadership and develop software applications by studying requirements, systems flow, data usage and work processes following the Software Development Lifecycle to meet the user needs for GN. The responsibility includes evaluating, estimating, architecting, developing, unit testing, and supporting the deployment of Software applications while mentoring team members to reach their full potential. This position requires the ability to quickly learn complex domain concepts and good understanding of the DevOps best practices.

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS (Key Success Factors)

• Determine and identify high-level functional and technical requirements by working with global teams
• Be actively involved in software development, systems integration, build, and deployment of high-quality cloud solutions
• Provide expertise to the group with regards to enterprise data strategies, application, and data security
• Collaborate with internal teams to brainstorm and create reusable subsystems using modern modelling techniques
• Expected to stay on the leading edge of development practices
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating the problem definition, requirements, and proposed solutions
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools and programming techniques, and participating in educational opportunities

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience as a Software Developer
• Proven track record in cloud development using Microsoft Azure
• Expertise in implementing and consuming web services
• Experience with Microservice architecture and Docker
• Experience in solution design using design patterns, hands-on development and testing (incl. automated testing)
• Solid development experience in C# and .NET Core
• Experienced in API design and development
• Experience in cloud-based security design principles
• Experience with Agile development preferably in a SAFe environment
• Experience in Git
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
• Detailed oriented and quality focused
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and experience in working with global teams

We are looking for a Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and work closely with research and engineering teams to develop service-oriented applications. Additionally, this role requires to interface with product management and other engineering leaders to design robust, scalable cloud software that meets both the immediate and future needs of our constantly evolving business environment. If You’re passionate to stay on the leading edge of development practices and always looking to build new skills, come and join the GN team and define the future by creating and implementing solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Other: The Hearing Healthcare industry provides you the grounds for creativity to help our end-users with innovative solutions. You will be working in a dynamic team environment developing advanced concepts within desktop, web, mobile platforms, and proprietary applications. You will interface with end-users during the design process to directly influence User Center Designs. We are in the Chicago suburbs, so work flexibility is afforded to performance. The R&D Center in Glenview represents a global marketplace; hence, some travel is required and can include international travel. If you’re passionate about Evidence Based Practices, want to grow your career, and see your work utilized for the benefit of the hearing impaired, let’s start the dialog.

This job description is intended to be a general guideline for applicants, employees and managers. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, expectations or qualifications. This description does not create a contract or guarantee of employment. Management reserves the right to modify job responsibilities, expectations and qualifications.

Equal Opportunity Employer
GN Hearing is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to cultural diversity in the workplace. GN Hearing openly supports and is fully committed to the recruitment, training and promotion of all individuals, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, age, gender, maternity, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law or ordinance. Founded in 1869, GN group today operates in more than 90 countries across the world and has more than 6,000 employees. View The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement.

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