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Employer: SMB IT, Inc.
Job Title: Senior Engineer II
Job Location: 300 Continental Drive, Newark, DE 19713
Job Type: Full-time, 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Duties:- Responsible for driving critical technical initiatives and contributing significantly to system design and implementation.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable systems, services, or infrastructure components.
- Make architectural decisions with long-term impact.
- Take ownership of features and projects end-to-end.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives with minimal oversight.
- Conduct code reviews with an emphasis on quality, performance, and maintainability.
- Tackle complex, ambiguous technical challenges with structured thinking and pragmatic solutions.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver thoughtful and impactful solutions.
- Hybrid work permitted up to 3 days per week within a reasonable commuting distance of Newark, Delaware.
Requirements:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Technologies-Management and Management Information Systems, or related field of study and five (5) years of experience as a System Engineer, Planning Engineer, Business Analyst, or related role where required experience was gained. Also requires 5 years of experience in the following:
- Computer science fundamentals, system design, and architecture;
- One or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or TypeScript;
- Designing and deploying production-quality systems at scale;
- Technology Product Ownership, operating Azure Dev Ops technology for management of team project delivery, dependencies and solution effort estimates;
- Development of technical business requirements in support of solution delivery; and
- Development of Data ERD diagrams to track data lineage across multiple systems.
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Feeling your best helps you do your best: Our benefits take care of the whole you-so you can build your work around your life (not the other way around!). - Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Generous PTO, Floating Holidays and 12 Federal Holidays observed
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement 401k with employer match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance and more
- Employer paid short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
- Paid parental leave and adoption reimbursement programs
- Free access to on-site staffed fitness centers (in Delaware) and gym subsidy (for locations outside Delaware)
- Confidential counseling support (EAP), Health Advocacy services and Wellness program with financial incentives
- Tuition Reimbursement and Family Scholarship Programs
- Career development and training opportunities
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