Senior Software Engineer

OVERVIEW

TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. It remains founder-led – and has striven to maintain the ethos and drive that led them to grow organically year-on-year for the past 30 years. Starting in an NYU dorm room in the early 1990s, TransPerfect is today recognized as the largest translation and language services company in the world with thousands of employees located in 100+ offices around the world – and over $1 billion in revenue in 2023.

The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the company’s success since its formation 10 years ago – delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues – from workflow improvements for colleagues, to core services that form the basis of the company’s GlobalLink platform, to creating scalable client interfaces that allow novice users to navigate complex ecosystems.

About this Role:

In this role, you will help build and enhance our existing web applications and set the standards for code and performance. You will help design and execute the projects that support the company roadmap, collaborate to best build core systems for scalability, reliability and performance, to ensure that your product is delivering an amazing experience for users.

This position offers:

• A significant leadership role in a dynamic, well-functioning technology division with the world's largest provider of language services and technology solutions
• An opportunity to set the standard in product direction and development
• Advantages of working in a team of subject matter experts that develop the new cutting-edge technology
• Outstanding financial rewards

DESCRIPTION

• Define project deliverables to support delivery of high quality products on schedule that meet company needs and goals
• Ensure complete understanding of the development estimate and project scope – work with Product Managers and QA leads to assure development teams deliver projects within the framework of the given estimate and assumptions
• Manage software product releases and upgrades
• Provide support for continuous integration, test automation, source code control and review processes
• Constantly evaluate process and procedures for inefficiencies, and make recommendations for improvement, and drive them through with stakeholders
• Diverse duties include analysis, design, development, maintenance and support of complex applications, web services and RESTful Web services
• Co-ordinate with Product Managers all software delivery activities and acts as the escalation point for all development issues specific to projects
• Work with QA team to assure project quality and defined measurements of code quality
• Drive product strategy and vision to deliver high quality products and/or features on schedule that meet the product needs and corporate goals.
• Communicates project scope changes, prioritization reasoning, and decisions affecting product delivery
• Collaborate with stakeholders to assure timely completion of all tasks associated with development process
• Provide constructive feedback to management staff during all phases of the software lifecycle to keep development priorities aligned with business needs.
• Operate in agile environment, communicate and manage internal and external implementation requirements and expectations

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred; computer science, information technology, math, or related field preferred
• Strong experience with source control management (GIT), continuous integration and deployment (Team Foundation Server, etc.), and best practices
• Experienced professional, 8+ years’ experience with .Net, C#, MVC, AJAX, JSON, JQuery, SQL Server, WCF, in developing and/or supporting custom applications, their reporting tools and integration points.
• In-depth knowledge of the Microsoft platform (IIS, .NET, Web Services, SQL Server, Windows Server, Clustering, Active Directory etc.)
• NoSQL database experience, an asset
• Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring others to success, developing team members and being a role model
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document and communicate technical information to IT professionals
• Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects
• Deeply knowledgeable of the SDLC, Agile and SCRUM methodologies
• Experience managing projects and teams using agile management technologies such as Jira, Team Foundation Server, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Trello, etc.
• A problem solver's mentality with the ability to effectively communicate solutions and issues to stakeholders