Senior Software Engineer (Java)

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Kuala Lumpur. While the role title and job grade remain unchanged, we have pivoted our focus to prioritize candidates with a strong software engineering (development) background, complemented by some DevOps experience. This role is specifically designed to support our CaaS KL team.

• Interact with the Product Owner/Business Analyst to define, refine, develop, test, and deliver against functional requirements.
• Understand and translate functional requirements into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with the architecture team to design the components of the product suite.
• Provide input to the project delivery plan, including sizing and estimation if required, with regards to one’s areas of responsibility.
• Coordinate work within the boundaries of their teams and project.
• Be accountable for the quality of the team’s output, supporting through code review processes and testing strategies as a whole-team approach.
• Implement correct, performant, and reliable code on schedule and according to specification.
• Determine code quality and test coverage, designing and implementing tests to ensure software is built to the highest quality possible.
• Develop and maintain test automation efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure close collaboration between Development and Operations, enabling smoother operation between teams.
• Embrace DevOps culture and automate everything from deployment, monitoring, management, and incident responses – treat “Everything as Code.”
• Be responsible for defect closure and root cause analysis to avoid regressions.
• Drive continual improvement in quality and efficiency, including defect prevention/root cause analysis, suggesting and adopting improvements to technology and efficiency.
• Collaborate and partner across different departments including support, consulting, product management, and engineering.
• Mentor software engineers, including those on other teams.
• Share knowledge and supervise more junior team members.
• Organize forums to share knowledge on their practice and on the product.
• Divide larger pieces of work into tasks for themselves and other team members.
• Support the Scrum release planning process through analysis and estimation of development work.
• Write technical documentation for internal or external consumption, for developers of varying skill levels.
• Assist in the recruitment process as well as potentially training, mentoring, and supervising associate team members.
• Contribute at the Product level Scrum of Scrums.
• Influence system designs and plans from a testing perspective.
• Review, analyze, and improve test coverage and reduce defect count for their product area.
• Contribute to product release planning.

• Candidate must ideally possess at least a discipline with a strong computing background.

• Strong programming, troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• A strong understanding of processes and methodologies that drive scalable software development and software testing.

• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

• Experience working in cross-functional teams.

• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving, and challenging (and somewhat ambiguous) environment.

• Understanding and familiarity with good Java design and Software Engineering Processes/methods such as:

  • Architecture Design
  • Design Patterns
  • Expertise in refactoring
  • Agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
  • CI/CD, DevOps, and Test Automation
  • TDD – Test Driven Development, BDD – Behavioral Driven Development
  • Automated unit testing (e.g., JUnit)
  • Automated functional testing (e.g., TestNG, Cucumber, Selenium)
  • Mocking Framework (e.g., JMockit, Mockito, WireMock)

• Familiarity with Open Source tools & Frameworks, including but not limited to Ajax, Spring, JSF, Ant, Subversion, Maven, CruiseControl, Hibernate/JPA, Junit, JMS, SOAP, Axis, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible, and Cucumber.

• More than 5 years of experience in a similar or closely related role is expected to demonstrate competency.

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