Software Engineer - 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. Works on one or more projects, making contributions to unfamiliar code written by team members.
• Participates in estimation process, use case specifications, reviews of test plans and test cases, requirements, and project planning. Diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Documents 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.
• Able to 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

• Role: Core Java Backend Developer
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Core Development: 5+ years of hands-on experience in software design and object-oriented programming, with a focus on core Java . (Familiarity with secondary scripting languages like Python or JavaScript is a plus).
• Build Tools: 2+ years of experience with software build management and dependency automation tools like Maven or Gradle .
• Quality & Performance: 5+ years of experience implementing unit/integration testing, code coverage, performance tuning, and quality engineering techniques (e.g., JUnit, profiling, debugging).
• Cloud Infrastructure: 5+ years of experience with cloud platform technologies (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Web Integration: Core understanding of frontend web integration technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to effectively interface backend REST APIs with web clients.
  
  

What could set you apart

• 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