Associate Software Development Engineer - Full Stack - Java - Hybrid 4 days - NYC

Associate Software Development Engineer -Java Microservices - NYC 4 days per week in office. 

An Associate, Software Development Engineer contributes to Publicis Sapient engagements by creating units of defect free code modules that meet the business and technical requirements during Enterprise Architecture Release (Ear), Implementation and Manage phases

We at Publicis Sapient, enable our clients to thrive in Next and to create business value through expert strategies, customer-centric experience design, and world-class product engineering.  The future of business is disruptive, transformative and becoming digital to the core.

In our 20 + years in IT, never before have we seen such a dire need for transformation in every major industry - from financial services to automotive, consumer products, retail, energy, and travel.

To make this transformative journey a reality in these exciting times, we seek rockstars who will:

brave it out to go do the next; “what will be” from “what is”

Exhibit the optimism that says there is no limit to what we can achieve deeply skilled, bold, collaborative, flexible

Reimagine the way the world works to help businesses improve the daily lives of people and the world.

Our people thrive because of the belief that it is both our privilege and responsibility to usher our clients and the world into Next. 

Our work is fueled by challenging boundaries, multidisciplinary collaboration, highly agile teams, and the power of the newest technologies and platforms. 

Your Impact:

Software Development Engineers (SDE-I) are the bright talented and motivated young minds with strong technical skills, developing software applications and services that make life easier for customers. 

The SDE-I is expected to work with an agile team to develop, test, and maintain digital business applications.

As an SDE-I you will get an opportunity to work with industry leading clients and global teams to solve complex business problems and build your skills on the full stack of application development technologies

• You will work in the spirit of agile & a product engineering mindset - delivering the sprint outcomes, iteratively & incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• You will groom the stories functionally & help define the acceptance criteria (Functional & Non-Functional/NFRs) collaborating actively with stakeholders - locally & in client org., understanding end-to-end customer requirements
• You will actively contribute in technical grooming, brainstorming & whiteboarding design sessions to define & articulate the solution approaches, to identify tasks & estimates, and to document the module/sub-system design with their interfaces & wireframes
• You will have breadth of concepts, tools & technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and understand the need for trade-offs
• You will bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the module / components level
• You will be a polyglot with a PE mindset – Open & Curious, learning & adopting new languages, platforms & toolkits constantly
• You will work with SDE-IIs to understand & practice the overall system architecture, standards & guidelines; While helping them with module & sub-system level details
• You will help evangelize and inculcate the engineering mindset and culture, share knowledge within Peer groups & ASDEs; Provide and receive constructive feedback
• You will have a continuous improvement mindset working on opportunities to shift left; Proactive about reduction of tech. debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using the right productivity tools, understanding client business, using dashboards for monitoring & alerts
• You will be accountable for development, unit testing of features with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards:

• • Solve problems at a story level, given the stories and system design
  • Design Sub-systems/Modules, Ensure Implementation in-line with design & Integration with all dependent systems/modules; Focused on solving business problems.
  • Write Unit & Acceptance Testcases, adopting a Test First approach applying TDD; while using BDD for Functional & Integration testing
  • Manage Tech Debts
  • Use SCM like GIT; Understand & adopt different branching strategies for code development;
  • Use integrated tools like Jira, Confluence etc., along with other collaboration tools across geo locations
  • Perform Peer Reviews of sub-system, component level design & implementation, following the established coding standards
  • Use Static Analysis & Profiling tools to ensure high Code Quality & Performance
  • Practice the DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, Deploy & Support the implementation from Dev., QA environments all the way to Production
  • Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), User Manuals to help in the support & training