Software Engineer (Java) - Intermediate

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you’ll do

• Perform general application development activities, including unit testing, code deployment to development environment and technical documentation.

• Work on one or more projects, making contributions to unfamiliar code written by team members.

• Diagnose and resolve performance issues.

• Participate in the estimation process, use case specifications, reviews of test plans and test cases, requirements, and project planning.

• Document code/processes so that any other developer is able to dive in with minimal effort.

• Develop, and operate high scale applications from the backend to UI layer, focusing on operational excellence, security and scalability.

• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)

• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.

• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality.

• Participate in a tight-knit engineering team employing agile software development practices.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network, or service operations and quality.

• Write, debug, and troubleshoot code in mainstream open source technologies

• Lead effort for Sprint deliverables, and solve problems with medium complexity

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 2+ years experience working with software design, developing and maintaining Java-based applications

• 2+ years experience with software build management tools like Maven or Gradle

• 2+ years of experience working with Java programming , SQL/NoSQL databases

• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices

• Experience with Cloud technology: GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure

• Strong problem-solving capabilities with large, complex datasets

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision

• Hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub)

• Exposure to other cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Redshift, Glue)

• Experience with multi-cloud or hubrid cloud data architectures

• Exposure to distributed system concepts (scalability, fault tolerance, eventual consistency)

• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.

• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)

• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)

• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)

• Developing with modern JDK (v17+)