Job Description

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Experian is looking for a talented Sr. Staff Engineer that can thrive in a fast-paced agile environment.  You will be a leading member of our software engineering team delivering a strategic platform leveraging cutting-edge technologies. You will be a key player in designing and implementing product features. This is a highly technical role requiring excellent coding skills. You will be responsible for developing a powerful, intuitive enterprise level data platform built on Java and Node.js in an AWS environment.

Responsibilities: 

• Hands-On collaboration and leadership of a software engineering team focused on building API based data connectors delivering highly secure, efficient and robust solutions in an aggressive timeframe.  
• Develop highly scalable and reliable data systems for data centric products and services on an AWS cloud-based platform  
• Integrate 3rd Party or Internal API and file based services utilizing CSV, JSON, or XML data  
• Deliver reliable and scalable data streaming application functionality 
• Diligently observe and maintain Standards for Regulatory Compliance and Information Security 
• Without fail deliver and maintain accurate, complete and current documentation  
• Contribute to and promote full Agile cycle engagements, including meetings, iterative development, estimations, code reviews and design sessions   
• Lead, mentor and collaborate with other team members  
• Collaborate and contribute with architecture, product and design decisions to deliver superior functionality and quality  
• Timely delivery of documented and tested software to the platform software engineering team. 
• Own deliverables from ideation to production operationalization

Qualifications

WHAT YOUR BACKGROUND LOOKS LIKE

• 10+ years of software development experience building and testing applications following secure coding practices
• 2 years of experience leading development teams  
• Currently collaborating as a hands-on team member developing and supporting a significant commercial software project in either Node.js or Java 
• Proven proficiency developing in both server-side Java  and Node.js applications using mainstream frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, React and AngularJS.  
• Current cloud technology experience, preferably AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) 
• Experience integrating with async messaging, logging or queues, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, NATS. 
• A strong proven proficiency in SQL and NoSQL based data access and management  
• Recent hands-on Experience building supporting commercial systems managing PII, secure or sensitive data and transactions including server-side development developing APIs including REST/JSON APIs  
• Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices (CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CLI, etc.)  
• Knowledgeable and experienced with software and system patterns and their application in prior works  
• Extensive experience gathering and assessing specifications and requirements
• Comfortable in a dynamic environment, with ability to adapt to various technologies and simultaneously work on multiple projects

Additional Preferred Experience

• Extensive experience building systems supporting financial services businesses  
• Experience working with Automated Underwriting/Decisioning Systems  
• Experience supporting data science efforts 
• Familiarity creating and using Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift  
• Experience building API and consuming API’s in Node.js or Netty based systems requiring high concurrency
• Security and privacy compliance (GPDR, CCPA, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, etc.) experience a plus 
• Knowledge and/or use of DDA, FDX, OFX, and/or FIX 
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake is highly desirable

PERKS

• During this pandemic, all Experian employees are working remotely. Once it’s safe to do so, we’ll slowly return to our offices however we are in no rush to do this. The safety of our employees is of utmost importance.
• Four weeks of vacation to start, five sick days and two volunteer days (plus eleven paid holidays)
• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits package, with a bonus target of 20%
• Flexible work schedule and relaxed dress code

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and it ensures that we live what we believe.