Software Engineer

Overview and Summary:We are Automotive Business Scientists. We empower our clients to turn overwhelming industry data into discovery, action and measured success. We are unique market leaders because we find and examine possibilities through the clarity of a scientific lens. To solve the toughest client challenges, we need curious, creative and dedicated people to join our team.**POSITION OVERVIEW**Workplace flexibility has taken on a whole new meaning here at Urban Science. The requirements of each team, role and employee can look quite different. Leaders work with their teams to determine the right balance for working in-person and remotely, considering the needs of the business, our clients, cross-functional projects, individual work, and individual preference.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Maintain our goal: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.- Use Agile methodologies to deliver solutions that will support our customers, mainly using the Scrum framework to support solution development, implementation, and support.- Work in a team environment to build our solutions, and with regular retrospection, improve our team culture and processes through continuous inspection.- Actively participate in team technical discussions where design ideas are presented and reviewed resulting in a team decision on the best approach.- Participate in systems design, design reviews, software development, code reviews, quality engineering, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.- Assist with the creation of necessary technical documentation in support of programming and design activities such as design diagrams, release notes, code comments, use cases, and training materials.- Assist with training as needed, including developing training materials and delivering training to staff.- May mentor other Software Engineers.Qualifications - Education and Experience:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Preferred familiarity with, or desire and ability to learn:- Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript- Utilization of technologies such as C#,.Net, WCF, and MS SQL Server- Modern JavaScript web development techniques (i.e., Angular)- Relational and dimensional database design methodologies and/or unstructured data solutions- Tools such as Visual Studio (VS), Team Foundation Server (TFS), GIT, etc.- Automation testing for quality engineering disciplines such as unit testing, smoke testing, and integration test.- Continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (Azure DevOps).- Understanding of potential performance, security, scalability and maintainability issues.Requires ability to:- Function on an Agile (Scrum) team utilizing ADO for task management and source control.- Use industry standard design patterns.- Understand and utilize testing methodologies (test driven development, unit testing, performance/load testing).- Learn and follow Urban Science’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).- Develop business awareness and understanding of the business requirements of IT.- Monitor and check work deliverables ensuring high quality, accuracy and having a strong attention to detail.- Prioritize competing demands, manage multiple concurrent tasks and adapt to changing priorities.- Find improvements in processes, projects, and software.- Independently engineer a feature or epic from ideation with product owner to delivery of those specified items, while understanding the impact in relation to the rest of the software platform and associated business.- Oral Communication: Requires the ability to compose and verbally deliver information of varying levels, using appropriate grammar, tone, inflection and non-verbal cues, while also listening to and correctly deciphering verbal communication delivered by others.- Written Communication: Requires the ability and capacity to communicate ideas, facts and data in writing using appropriate grammar, syntax and sentence structure including the ability to create technical documents.- Analytical Thinking/Reasoning: Requires the ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces, and/or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step causal way.- Results Orientation: Requires the ability to strive for optimal results by taking responsibility for timeliness, commitment to task and adherence to performance standards.- Ethics/Integrity: Requires the ability to behave in a trustworthy & transparent manner.- Teamwork & Cooperation: Requires the ability to work cooperatively with others and be part of a team.- Self-Control: Requires the