Software Engineer III

Software Engineer III role on the Distributed Applications team, delivering and supporting web, mobile, AI-enabled, and legacy systems in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle support for web, mobile, legacy, and AI-enabled applications.
• Translate business and technical requirements into solution designs, technical specifications, and maintainable application components.
• Design and integrate AI/ML capabilities and data pipelines using appropriate frameworks and technologies.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, including:
  • Architecture and design decisions
  • Estimation and implementation planning
  • Code quality and release readiness
• Establish and enforce development standards for security, performance, reliability, maintainability, observability, and regulatory compliance.
• Mentor team members with technical guidance.
• Implement DevOps practices including CI/CD and containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Write and automate test scripts; participate in code reviews and performance optimization.
• Participate in peer code reviews, application standards reviews, and application performance reviews.
• Provide ongoing production support for business applications via on-call rotation.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues found during design, testing, and maintenance using problem-solving and analysis.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize development and service issues to provide information to stakeholders.
• Research emerging technologies and propose solutions to improve processes.
• Evaluate and apply AI-enabled technologies to improve workflow efficiency, automate routine tasks, and support data-driven decision making.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery with Solution Architects, developers, infrastructure, security, data, quality assurance, and business stakeholders; identify risks and drive issues to resolution.
• Attend meetings for team collaboration, code reviews, and requirements and design discussions using tools such as O365, Copilot, Teams, Jira, and Confluence.
• Work in a team-oriented environment with flexibility to work independently.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5 years of total professional experience delivering technology solutions across application development, cloud services, data platforms, automation, AI-enabled technologies, and related software tools.
• Demonstrated experience developing, debugging, testing, deploying, and maintaining Java applications and RESTful web services.
• Hands-on DevOps tooling experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, Git, and Nexus, including CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience building and delivering AI-enabled application features, including LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG, or AI agent and workflow automation.
• Experience beyond the minimum requirement may be substituted for degree on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML and Data Analytics technologies.
• Experience with AI code assistant tools, LLMs, and AI models.
• Data transformation experience using ETL tools.
• Familiarity with migrating legacy systems such as COBOL on z/OS to modern technologies.

Technologies

• Backend/Cloud: Java, Python, Spring Boot, microservices, Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle WebLogic, Tomcat
• Frontend: Angular, React, TypeScript
• APIs/Enterprise Java: EJBs, JPA, JMS, JAX-RS, RESTful APIs
• Data: SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, ETL, data pipelines
• DevOps/Tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Nexus, Observability
• AI: LLM integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, workflow automation
• Collaboration/Work Tools: O365, Copilot, Teams, Jira, Confluence
• Software Support Context: DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery / Deployment
• Legacy Context: COBOL on z/OS

Location and Work Schedule

• Hybrid role based in Round Rock, TX.
• Onsite requirement: two days per week at the Round Rock, Texas office.
• Remaining days may be worked remotely.

Compensation

• USD 84,098 - 112,131 per year

Work Environment and On-Call

• Work may be remote or in an office with a small cubicle environment.
• Climate controlled office environment with no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
• Rotating on-call support for web and mobile business applications.

Non-Essential Responsibilities

• Support Information Technology’s vision, strategic direction, development, and future growth.
• Support other functions and responsibilities of the departments.
• Contribute to development of department and company strategic initiatives.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• Interact with all levels of management.
• Be available to work flexible hours.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Minimum Qualifications Summary

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 5 years of professional experience

Physical and Mental Demands

• Occasionally move about inside the office.
• Repetitive motion; regularly operates computer, phone, and general office equipment.
• Regularly communicate with employees and on the phone, virtually, or in person with clients and internal/external contacts.
• Requires close visual acuity for entering and reviewing information and analyzing data.
• Mental focus required to exchange detailed and accurate information via oral and written communication.