Software Engineer - Entry

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Design requirements on small systems or modules of medium systems (large scale) environment and technical documentation.
• Apply basic principles of software engineering and can follow instructions.
• Provide meaningful feedback on the release process, code review, and design review.
• Easily absorbs and applies new information.
• Displays a cooperative attitude and shares knowledge.
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.).
• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing corporate product platforms.
• 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.
• Leverage automation within scope of effort.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 6 months+ experience with Java software programming experience.
• 6 months+ experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap).
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices.
• 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 (v1.7+).
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI.

Nice-to-haves

• Agile Engineering Best Practices - Has basic knowledge of managing timely delivery of assigned engineering tasks and reporting status within agile ceremonies.
• Engineering Design - Has basic knowledge of design patterns and software engineering development lifecycle.
• Has basic knowledge of devops, SecOps and FinOps practices and levers that help to build effective, efficient and safe working software that meets business goals.
• Engineering Requirement Analysis - Has basic knowledge of decomposing business requirements into tactical software engineering tasks.
• Idea Creation - Has basic knowledge of business value creation through software engineering and continues to be curious about achieving the goals with more efficient ways.
• Industry Knowledge - Has basic knowledge about latest trends within software engineering fields and how it applies to role and responsibilities tactical goals.
• Systems Thinking - Has basic knowledge of how systems integrate with others. Assists in identifying factors that achieve the defined expectations of systems availability.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages.
• 401k matching.
• Paid time off.
• Organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.