Lead Software Engineer

Virtusa Corp
  • Chicago, IL
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    Software Engineer Senior Consultant II

    Work Arrangement: Hybrid

    The Software Engineer Senior Consultant collaborates with cross-functional teams to

    design, develop, test, and deliver secure, high-quality software solutions. This role

    applies agile and extreme programming (XP) practices such as test-driven

    development, paired programming, and continuous integration to create scalable and

    maintainable systems. The position requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving

    ability, and a collaborative mindset to support business needs while mentoring junior

    team members.

    • Participate in iteration planning meetings to ensure a shared understanding of user

    stories and team backlog items

    • Engage in daily standups (site, cross-site, and product teams) and practice paired

    programming and test-driven development as part of daily work

    • Contribute to retrospectives by identifying opportunities for process or product

    improvement

    • Collaborate in designing systems and applications that meet technical and business

    requirements

    • Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
    • Provide production support for software products in user environments
    • Serve as a subject matter expert within a specific business domain, demonstrating

    leadership and accountability across teams and forums (including ECC and SWAT calls)

    • Participate in knowledge sharing and contribute to the overall technical growth of the

    team

    • Coach and mentor junior engineers on software development best practices and XP

    methodologies

    • 3-5 years of software development experience - Spring Boot or similar frameworks and REST APIs and working with databases (relational, NoSQL,

    caching)

    • 3+ years of experience hands-on experience developing software using Java and

    J2EE

    • 1+ year applying Test Driven Development (TDD) and Extreme Programming (XP)

    practices within an Agile environment

    • Strong understanding of computer science concepts and object-oriented design

    principles

    • Familiarity with continuous integration and DevOps tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, GitHub,

    Jenkins, SonarQube, Gradle, or Maven and AWS, Azure, or other modern cloud

    environments and Kafka or similar technologies and Sonar, Fortify, or Contrast, Postman, Bruno; ELM tools like DataDog, ADX or similar

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, IL

    Skills

    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Cachingunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Consultingunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
    • Continuous Integrationunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • DevOpsunmatched
    • Extreme Programmingunmatched
    • GitHubunmatched
    • IntelliJ IDEAunmatched
    • Javaunmatched
    • Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE/J2EE)unmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Mail Servicesunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Microsoft Windows XPunmatched
    • NoSQLunmatched
    • Object Oriented Design (OOD)unmatched
    • Plan Meetingsunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Supportunmatched
    • Production Supportunmatched
    • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
    • Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
    • Software Administrationunmatched
    • Software Designunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Standup Meetingsunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Test Driven Development (TDD)unmatched
    • Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched

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