Junior FullStack Engineer

About the Team/Role

This role necessitates collaborative engagement with principal stakeholders, vendor representatives, and interdepartmental IT teams/experts to realize complex and innovative solutions that adhere to the organizational strategic and architectural directives. The Software Development Engineer bears responsibility for architecting and sustaining cloud-native platforms, including AWS, Azure, and a burgeoning Kubernetes environment. This position offers substantial latitude for research and integration of emergent technologies and processes, with a focus on automation, platform evolution, and the facilitation of self-service capabilities for developers. The role involves direct collaboration with a wide array of development teams for project onboarding, upskilling developers in the utilization of platform functionalities such as CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, configuration management, and application monitoring, thereby empowering them to expedite software delivery and adopt DevOps cultural tenets.

How you'll make an impact

• Actively contribute to and guide innovation in DevOps practices and incorporate agile delivery approaches and technologies that assist with developing and delivering high-quality software.

• Work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to promote and support the adoption of technologies that will automate, optimize and modernize the delivery of platforms and services.

• Promote and advocate changes to software engineering and operations with the adoption of new technologies that benefit the delivery of automated, highly scalable systems.

• Deliver technical consulting and subject matter expertise to technological solution projects, including pre-project, to ensure risks, interdependencies and exceptions are identified, mitigated or escalated, and solutions are formulated in alignment with Wex strategy and architecture.

• Develop high level options, conceptual approaches, technical recommendations and estimates to support the transition of system designs into operation.

• Improve services level by implementing performance management strategies, robust configuration management practices and automated processes.

Experience you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).  

• Some experience with personal projects, internships, or academic projects demonstrating the required skills.

• Programming Languages:

  • Demonstrated proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, JavaScript (Node.js, React, Angular, Vue.js), or .NET (C#).

  • Understanding of fundamental programming concepts (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, etc.).

• Version Control (Git/GitHub):

  • Practical experience using Git for source code management, including branching, merging, and pull requests.

  • Experience utilizing GitHub for collaborative development, code reviews, and issue tracking.

  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools for automated builds and deployments.

• Containerization and Orchestration:

  • Working knowledge of Docker for containerizing applications.

  • Basic understanding of Kubernetes for container orchestration, including deploying and managing applications.

  • Experience with writing Dockerfiles, and docker-compose files.

• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC):

  • Understanding of basic software development principles and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).

  • Experience with writing and maintaining unit tests.

• Troubleshooting and Debugging:

  • Ability to troubleshoot and debug software applications.

  • Ability to analyze logs, and system metrics.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience with database systems (SQL, NoSQL).

• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash).

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code(IaC) tools such as Terraform, or CloudFormation.