##### Job Description :
Sallie Mae is seeking top tier individuals who thrive in collaborative agile
teams leveraging the latest technologies (Amazon AWS, Clojure/Clojurescript,
Reagent/React, AWS Lambda, S3 Buckets, Beanstalk, PaaS, Azure Functions, C#,
Python, Java, Go, Swift, Kotlin, .NET Core, NoSQL DB’s). Sallie Mae is
committed to delivering best-in-class solutions to our customers and is
looking for developers who share the desire to deliver only the best code and
solutions and who want to continue to sharpen their skills by joining a
company that greatly values constant learning, pair-programming, training and
career development.
As part of this team you will build applications that provide modern and
intuitive user experiences that delight our customers, continue our Agile and
DevOps transformation, work to migrate applications to the cloud, build cloud
native solutions, and work with other top developers in building solutions
that scale in a high-volume transactional environment.
##### **What You Will Do:**
* Works in iterative sprints to design, develop and test solutions. Build automation and tests to streamline the code to cash pipeline. Refactoring new and legacy code as we work towards eliminating technical debt.
* Collaborates with agile teams to identify approach, dependencies, tasks, and seek opportunities for automation; mentor other team members, help recruit and onboard other top-talented developers.
* Continually improves your craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technology. Attend training, participate in Communities of Practice (CoPs), and read related materials to stay ahead of the technology curve.
##### **Minimum education, skills and experience required:**
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
* 3+ years of experience as a full-time software developer or engineer
* 2+ years full stack development
* 2+ years of experience:
* C# .NET backend development and strong knowledge of .NET platform
* Two or more programming languages: C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala
* Designing, developing and consuming RESTful, SOAP and GraphQL based web services for mission critical, high volume systems
* Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and experience working in Agile methodologies
* Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
* Experience working with automated testing platforms
* Ability to communicate effectively and work well with peers and management
* Skill for writing reusable and platform libraries
* Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
* Experience with asynchronous processing
* Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
* Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable and highly available application
* Strong understanding and experience writing unit tests
* Basic understanding of Common Language Runtime (CLR), its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools: git, tfvc
##### **Preferred education, skills, and experience:**
* Programming experience multiple scripting and programming languages and supporting technologies such as Reagent/React, Clojure/Clojurescript, AWS Lamda, Java, Python, R, Ruby, Go, bash, Swift, Beanstalk
* Hands on experience with functional programming languages
* Software architecture experience
* Test driven development (TDD)
* Experience with Event Driven and event sourced architectures leveraging microservices
* Experience designing/developing robust API’s for mission critical, high volume systems. (RESTful, GraphQL)
* Experience working in financial services industry, regulated compliance environment
* Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly
