About the role
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.
- Work on one or more projects, making contributions to unfamiliar code written by team members.
- Participate in the estimation process, use case specifications, reviews of test plans and test cases, requirements, and project planning.
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues.
- Document code and 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 such as serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, and 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, and resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network or service operations and quality.
- 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:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years experience working with software design and Java, Python, and JavaScript programming languages.
- 2+ years experience with software build management tools like Maven or Gradle.
- 2+ years experience with HTML, CSS, and frontend/web development.
- 2+ years experience with software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies.
- 2+ years experience with cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
What could set you apart:
- Self-starter that identifies and responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
- UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular, and Bootstrap).
- Experience with backend technologies such as Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, SOA, and microservices.
- Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, GitHub) and build tools like Maven and 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.