Software Engineer IV

Software Engineer IV

Product Development & Management - Limerick - Full Time Overview
For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalersadapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifyingthe complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering anintegrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers’ needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuellogistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDIsolutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deepdomain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a
people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had tosolve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To addressthe increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDIleads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable
solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create abroader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations,and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated tohelping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions andservices to over 200,000 sites. Job Summary
Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the higheststandards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive softwareengineer, an advocate of agile development practices, and a proponentof 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 softwareproducts as we drive to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. Youwill be working as a key part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support PDI'senterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend & implement systemenhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of ourproducts. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improvingEngineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, productowners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of status and supported in their roles.
With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must becomfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments and learning a variety ofprogramming languages. Responsibilities
· Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development,proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
· Lead medium and large sized projects
· Guide, train, and lead less experienced engineers
· Collaborate with Architecture and DevOps teams to evaluate tools, process, andtechnologies.
· Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-leveleffort estimation
· Prepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager withappropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on schedule
· Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement,analysing trends, patterns and best practices for software
· Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product
· 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 anddetermination of preferred solutions to technical challenges
· Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency andmaintain 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 debugdevelopment and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to developoptimal 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 newfeature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilisation. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
· 9+ years’ experience designing, developing, and maintaining software applicationsin a software product development environment
· Expert in all of the following: .Net and C#, SQL, JavaScript Web Frameworks (e.g. Angular), ASP.NET MVC.
· Proficiency with the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and the use of Azure DevOps or Jira
· 4+ year of experience serving as a technical team lead preferred
· 2+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologies
· 2+ years of experience working on public cloud native applications with experience with the following: AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as a Service, Docker.
· Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
· Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translatetechnical concepts into non-technical terms
· Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced andfocused 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.

Please only apply for this role if you live in Ireland.

Do you live within 30 minutes travelling distance of Limerick?*

Do you require a visa to work in Ireland?*