Staff Software Engineer

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Posted: 19-Mar-24

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Information Technology
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: JR25650

Location: Chicago, IL

Job Description:

• Responsible for a scope of significant size critical to the teamâ™s success, including top priority technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting and helping define the required level of quality.

• Participation in complex and challenging activities, including design and implementation.

• Provide technical leadership and effectively mentor interns and less experienced members.

• Actively participate in the hiring process and provide fair and productive interview feedback.

• Negotiate complex decisions, present options and persuasively advocate for optimal technical solutions, internally and externally.

• Designs new systems, features, and tools. Solves complex problems and identifies opportunities for technical improvement and performance optimization. Reviews and tests code to ensure appropriate standards are met.

• Utilizes technical knowledge of existing and emerging technologies, including public cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

• Acts as a technical consultant and resource for faculty research, teaching, and/or administrative projects.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications  

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Education: 

• Advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a relevant quantitative field.

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Experience: 

• 6 years or more of relevant software development experience, full cycle preferred, including design, coding, testing, and support.

• Advanced programming skills using Python (preferred), Golang/Javascript (a plus), or other languages like C/C++, Java, or C#.

• Knowledge of web applications, REST API, microservices, and containers.

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Spark, Hadoop, and data analysis.

• Knowledge of configuration management utilities (Chef, Salt, Ansible) and container-based deployment solutions (Docker, Kubernetes).

• High performance/cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP, Openstack).

• Unix/Linux programming, open source, and version control experience.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Openstack), CI/CD, and Agile methodologiesâ¯.

Preferred Competencies  

• Ability to collaborate with team members and help define guidelines and best practices and ensuring accountability for deliverables and outcomes.

• Ability to take multiple complex tasks and break them into smaller ones, estimating the effort needed to complete them, prioritizing them appropriately, and ensuring the completion of each task, meeting the required level of quality.

• Ability to prioritize and manage workload to meet project milestones and deadlines.

• Ability to persuade others to adopt new structures or systems in order to meet objectives.

• Ability to take and provide constructive and helpful input and feedback on technical issues.

• In-depth knowledge in most technical areas of major projects and the core product.

• Considered a Subject Matter Expert of main technology, programming languages, and core solutions.

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Working Conditions  

• Office environment.

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Application Documents  

• Resume (required) 

• Cover Letter (preferred) 

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.

Staff Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-5800 or submit a request via the Applicant Inquiry Form.

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