As a Senior Software Engineer at Mercer, you will be responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of performant, highly scalable software solutions. This is a hands-on role that requires the candidate to work collaboratively in a team following a Scaled Agile development methodology. You must be a self-starter, delivery-focused, and possess a broad set of technology skills.

We will count on you to:

• Ensure that solution requirements are gathered accurately, understood, and that all stakeholders have transparency on impacts
• Perform coding to written Agile stories with unit tests adhering to coding standards and guidelines
• Line Manage or provide Technical Guidance to one or more engineers and act as a role model for your peer group
• Advocate best practices and concepts within your organisation
• Work closely with your peers as a mechanism of continuous improvement
• Champion good agile practices that are foundational to product delivery
• Be an involved member of the MMC Technology community – contribute, collaborate, and learn
• Build strong relationships with product owners, solutions architects, analysts and pod leadership
• Work with state-of-the-art technologies to solve genuine, real-world problems
• Troubleshoot and resolved development issues
• Provide technical support to clients on existing problems
• Recommend and execute code improvements based on current solutions

What you need to have:

• For the Senior Engineer role, we are looking for a candidate with proven experience of working on mulitple products
• The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment
• Proven track record of successfully delivering software with a broad mix of languages, technologies and platforms
• Experience working with Agile at Scale, Lean and Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with cloud native software architectures
• Proven experience in Security driven design practices and the remediation of SAST/DAST findings
• Experience in CI/CD and Devops practices including the use of Quality Gates to maintain high levels of code
• Strong Self-starter and involved squad contributor

Technical Skills or Qualifications Required:

• Broad experience across multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth skills in at least one of the following: JavaScript, Typescript, C#
• Strong experience in one or more of the following frameworks Angular, NodeJS, Express.JS, .NET, Less(Sass)
• Experience with Unit Testing and Integration Testing is also essential
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience of the following middleware is desirable Kafka, NServiceBus, Camunda, Dremio, RabbitMQ
• Practiced experience refactoring, implementing design patterns, design driven development, continuous integration, system and application design, application security
• Strong experience working with an ORM Framework including the use of TSQL and NOSQL databases such as MSSQL and Mongodb
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC processes and practices and experience with some or all of Confluence, JIRA, ADO, Github etc.
• Experience designing and deploying applications on cloud infrastructure with providers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Experience working with the MEAN or MERN stack