Overview:
As our Software Engineer, you will be responsible for working closely with the business community to understand the business processes and needs / requirements of business clients.
You will also develop, analyze, and document changes required in the IT systems to fulfill requirements submitted by the users/business partners for our eCommerce environment with minimum guidance.
This position requires weekly onsite work in Omaha, NE.
Detailed Description:
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions
Interprets design documents, completes analysis and creates designs on simple to moderate projects under general supervision
Provides level of effort estimation on completing code, unit testing
Oversees small projects
Conducts design walk throughs on own work
Codes, tests, and debugs moderately complex programming projects from detailed specifications independently with limited supervision across one or more platforms
Write unit tests for code changesand assists in QA testing
Provide status reports on assigned projects
Create design documents, Unit test scripts and User manuals.
Participates with team members in estimating resource requirements, project/sprint planning and scheduling for development projects
Abides by all policies and procedures of Oriental Trading Company, Inc.
Maintains regular and predictable attendance
Must be able to attend face to face meetings on short or little advance notice
Work requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors
Marginal Functions
Participates in regularly rotated on-call duties: Must be available 24 hours/day to receive calls from Operators/Users, investigate and solve issues while on call
Assist in defect incident report, determine root cause and resolution
Performs other duties and projects as assigned
Here’s what you need to join the fun:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Possess an understanding of business applications and design techniques
Must possess communication skills that will help in determining customer’s exact needs and in disseminating that information to appropriate personnel
Ability to become proficient in the daily operations at Oriental Trading Company
Knowledge of application development/maintenance for services and executable applications.
Knowledge of source control software and dump analysis techniques
Knowledge of cloud platforms and tools like AWS EC2, AWS S3, etc.
.
Able to use advanced system utilities (TAATOOLS, Job Scheduler, APIs, etc.
).
Can use new utilities relying only on manuals.
Understanding of System Analysis, Design, and System Integration
Moderate knowledge Java EE Technologies (ranging from EJB to JSP), HTML, CSS and XML
Spring Framework and Visual Basic experience preferred
Some experience in testing techniques and able to learn testing requirements of systems supported.
Knowledge of applications development/maintenance for interactive and batch programming (e.
g.
Java or RPG).
Knowledge of modes of data/file transfer protocols or mechanisms (e.
g.
FTP, JDBC, etc.
).
Moderate knowledge Oracle DB or PostgreSQL
Education
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics and communication or closely related field required
Experience
Minimum two years of experience with application development, software QA, or related field
Other Qualifications
Ability to perform the job in a safe manner
Join us at Oriental Trading, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, where fun means business!
Oriental Trading Company (www.
orientaltrading.
com), is the nation’s largest direct retailer of value-priced party supplies, arts and crafts, toys and novelties, and a leading provider of teaching supplies and affordable home décor and giftware.
Founded in 1932 by a Japanese American, the Oriental Trading history of fun spans the better part of the last century.
Today, Oriental Trading offers more than 60,000 products to individuals, teachers, schools, churches, businesses and nonprofits.
With a corporate vision to “Make Life More Fun,” Oriental Trading (a Berkshire Hathaway company) spreads joy and smiles to millions each year through a robust family of brands; Oriental Trading, Fun Express, MindWare, SmileMakers, Morris Costumes and halloweenexpress.
com.
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