NYISO is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The Senior Software Engineer at NYISO is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software products. The role involves full stack development, creating software design specifications, evaluating new technology, participating in the 24x7x365 on-call support rotation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software products
• Participate in the research of new technologies
• Perform full stack development, including front end, back end, and database work where appropriate
• Create software design specifications for functionality as defined in approved requirement specifications
• Evaluate new technology and tools. Incorporate approved technology and tools to enhance the product development process
• Present technology design and related issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Document product architecture plans
• Design and develop technical testing methods to meet target scalability and performance objectives
• Lead projects with assistance from Manager and have high visibility with other staff
• Mentor and coach Associate Engineers and Engineers
• Serve as subject matter expert across the organization for the application(s) supported
• Provide software subject matter expertise and support for all phases of the NYISO software development lifecycle
• Interact with Project Managers in all phases of project lifecycle. Provide task estimates and work breakdown structures
• Manage resource allocations for Software Engineers on the project team and track their progress
• Perform software development activities in support of the NYISO mission and business objectives
• Create, modify and/or refactor software programs as defined in approved specifications and designs
• Create automated unit and functional tests to ensure software changes are reasonably free from defects
• Provide post-production application support as required
• Support responsibilities may include consultation, problem identification, data analysis and/or emergency repairs
• Resolve customer inquiries and respond to suggestions for improvement and enhancements
• Develop user interfaces for web-based applications, incorporating best practices and NYISO standards for usability and design
• Incorporate industry and NYISO best practices for web application security into all software design and development work
• Participate in penetration-testing of NYISO-developed applications. Review results with Managers and create mitigation plans for supported applications
• Collaborate with third-party vendors to support and troubleshoot issues identified in their applications
• Update internal documentation as necessary based on product changes
• Review impacts to NYISO processes with Manager and Business Partners and support deployment of updated applications
• Collaborate with other Software Engineering and IT teams as needed and Project Managers to manage changes to supported applications
• Partner with other IT teams to resolve configuration, deployment, or environmental issues
• Perform data profiling to ensure that application performance targets and database capacity needs will be able to be met in the future
• Participate in continuous learning to improve technical skills as required
• Collaborate with QA and Business owners on test case development and test result reviews