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Software Engineer II  

Description

The Software Engineer will work building and maintaining of Ascentis SaaS solutions as part of an agile engineering team. It's expected this individual will be passionate about applying the right technology solutions to solve tough software development challenges efficiently and elegantly. It's equally expected he or she will be savvy and knowledgeable of the current state of the art on web development and apply that knowledge to Ascentis products. He/she will be ruthless about creating software productively that is both performing and scalable.

 

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What are the general responsibilities of the position?

  • Develop new user-facing features and maintain and extend existing capabilities
  • Collaborate with other Senior Engineers and the UX team to ensure feasibility and economical sense of the designs
  • Create elegant, reusable, high quality, efficient and scalable code
  • Facilitate technical trainings and meetings
  • Participate in web engineering technology architecture discussions for product development
  • Advocate for development or quality assurance best practices across teams
  • Effectively learn new programming languages, frameworks, libraries as required by the team goals
 
Position Requirements

What are we looking for in a candidate?

  • High level of spoken and written English language
  • Experience in Javascript and React (Required)
  • 2+ years relevant experience
  • Experience on web markup in general, HTML5, CSS3
  • Experience dealing with dependency management
  • Experience dealing with web development related ever evolving security issues, such as cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, etc. a plus
  • Experience using code versioning tools such as Git and Mercurial
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment a plus
  • Self-starter and ability to think outside the box
  • Ability to learn from existing legacy code, derive essential functionality and translate to new model and design as required
  • Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

Education/experience/technical considerations:

  • Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge about backend technologies: .Net/C# or Java (nice to have)
  • Experience in other frontend libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS (nice to have)
  • Experience with Object Oriented design and development
  • Experience applying TDD and/or BDD a plus
  • Experience with SOA/microservice architecture a plus
 
Location Uruguay  
About the Organization The Ascentis mission is to create innovative products that are easy to use for the often under-served mid-market that cover the full Human Capital Management (HCM) suite. This full suite approach combined with an amazing team equals success!





We at Ascentis firmly believe that a product is only as good as the people behind it. Whether it's platform development, technology maintenance, client support, product management, sales or operations, all of our employees see the direct impact of their work. As a leader and one of the fastest growing 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) companies in the Human Capital Management space, Ascentis focuses on hiring talented and motivated people from diverse backgrounds. If you want to channel your ambition and drive for success, you belong with Ascentis!





Ascentis has grown tremendously over the last 3 years. Recently, we announced a majority recapitalization by global growth equity investor Summit Partners. Summit invests across growth sectors of the global economy and has invested in more than 440 companies in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries. These companies have completed more than 140 public equity offerings. So, needless to say, we are all extremely excited with where we are headed!







 

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