Eric Crooks | Software Engineer

Job Description

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We are looking for experienced full-stack software engineers who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing code, pairing with other developers as appropriate, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, while working as a strong contributor on an agile team. From a technical standpoint, the Software Engineer has full-stack coding and implementation responsibilities and adheres to best practice principles including modern cloud-based software development, agile and scrum, code quality, and tool usage. The Software Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi's technical user base.
Responsibilities:

Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with stakeholders on a regular basis

Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.

Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns.

Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary.

Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards.

Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy.

AI-Driven Development: Leverage AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, to enhance development efficiency, accelerate delivery timelines, and optimize software solutions.

AI Landscape Awareness: Maintain awareness of the rapidly evolving AI landscape and proactively propose innovative approaches to implement product features.

Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Possess the expertise to analyze and effectively troubleshoot complex coding, application performance, and design challenges.

Root Cause Analysis: Capable of conducting thorough research to identify the root causes of development and performance issues, as well as devising and implementing effective defect resolutions.

Technical Acumen: Demonstrate a profound understanding of the technical requirements pertinent to the solutions under development.

Containerization and Orchestration: Utilize Docker for application containerization and Kubernetes for efficient service orchestration.

Communication and Risk Management: Effectively communicate progress, proactively anticipate bottlenecks, provide skilled escalation management, and adeptly identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks across various levels.

Process Optimization: Streamline, automate, or eliminate redundant processes within architecture, build, delivery, production operations, or business areas where similar efforts or issues recur annually.

Requirements:

Extensive Experience: Minimum of 5 years of proven software development experience, specializing in Java, Javascript framework like React, Spring Boot, and Oracle.

Modern Application Development:

In-depth knowledge of modern application architecture principles.

Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java

Practical experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for enhancing development workflows.

Proficiency in Microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), Event-Driven Services, and Cloud-Native Application Development.

Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and Microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations

Full Stack Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain both front-end and back-end components of robust web applications.

Front-End Development: Strong expertise in developing intuitive user interfaces using contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React), HTML5, and CSS.

Back-End Development: Solid experience in developing server-side logic and APIs using languages such as Java, Python, or similar.

Database Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL, with a deep understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), particularly Oracle.

API Development: Proven capability in designing, developing, and implementing high-performance RESTful APIs leveraging appropriate frameworks and technologies.

CI/CD and DevOps:

Proficiency with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools for building (e.g., Maven, Gradle) and deploying code (e.g., Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift).

Experience with AWS is considered a significant advantage.

Agile Methodologies: Practical experience working within Agile development methodologies and utilizing project management tools such as JIRA.

Testing Automation: Ability to develop and automate comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality.

Version Control: Solid understanding and practical experience with code versioning tools, including GitHub Enterprise.

Education:
A bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.

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Senior Software Engineer

thor@example.com | (555) 555-5555 | Raleigh, NC | github.com/somereallycoolsuperhero | linkedin.com/in/somereallycoolsuperhero

Professional Summary
Senior full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise applications within Agile software delivery teams. Specializes in Java, Spring Boot, and React, with deep expertise in microservices and event-driven, cloud-native architecture on Oracle RDBMS. Passionate about solving business problems through engineering best practices, AI-driven development (GitHub Copilot), and continuous process optimization. Proven record of decomposing acceptance criteria, mitigating risk, and delivering sprint goals collaboratively across cross-functional teams.

Skills
Languages: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML5, CSS

Frontend: React, JavaScript frameworks, component-driven UI, REST/GraphQL integrations

Backend: Spring Boot, microservices frameworks, event-driven services, server-side logic and API development

Architecture: Microservices, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), REST, GraphQL, cloud-native application development, software design patterns, data structures and OOP

Database: Oracle, RDBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, schema design and query optimization

DevOps & CI/CD: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, OpenShift, Maven, Gradle, CI/CD pipeline design, AWS

AI & Tooling: GitHub Copilot, AI-driven development workflows, AI landscape awareness and innovation

Practices: Agile, Scrum, JIRA, GitHub Enterprise (version control), unit/integration/E2E test automation, root cause analysis, risk management and escalation

Experience
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer | FinServe Technologies (Remote)
March 2021 – Present

Engineer and maintain enterprise applications within an Agile/Scrum team, decomposing acceptance criteria to assess backlog deliverables, complexity, and risk while consistently meeting sprint goals.

Design and develop cloud-native microservices in Java and Spring Boot, exposing REST and GraphQL APIs consumed by internal teams and customer-facing React frontends.

Lead containerization and orchestration efforts using Docker and Kubernetes, standardizing service deployment across OpenShift and improving environment parity.

Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI tooling to accelerate development timelines, optimize solutions, and proactively propose innovative approaches to product feature implementation.

Conduct root cause analysis on complex application performance and design challenges, devising and implementing defect resolutions that reduced production incidents by 28%.

Build and automate comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using Maven and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, lifting code coverage from 44% to 82% across critical services.

Collaborate with technical leadership to influence software architecture and define team standards aligned to broader technical strategy.

Streamline and automate redundant delivery and operations processes, eliminating recurring manual build steps and reducing release cycle time by 35%.

Full-Stack Developer | Cedar Interactive (Raleigh, NC)
August 2018 – March 2021

Developed and maintained both front-end and back-end components of robust web applications, building intuitive user interfaces with React, HTML5, and CSS.

Designed high-performance RESTful APIs in Java and Spring Boot, integrating with Oracle databases via SQL and PL/SQL for complex data access and reporting.

Contributed to the design, documentation, and development of enterprise applications leveraging modern software design patterns and Service-Oriented Architecture.

Participated in Agile and Scrum processes, partnering continuously with stakeholders and using JIRA to track progress, anticipate bottlenecks, and manage risk and escalation.

Implemented automated testing across the delivery pipeline using Gradle and Jenkins, improving code quality and reducing post-release defects.

Supported AWS-based deployments, contributing to cloud-native application development and CI/CD tooling.

Software Developer | Bluepeak Systems (Durham, NC)
June 2016 – August 2018

Developed server-side logic and RESTful APIs in Java and Spring Boot for internal enterprise tooling used by 500+ employees.

Wrote and optimized PL/SQL queries and procedures against Oracle RDBMS for reporting and data ingestion workloads.

Contributed to the migration of legacy services to a containerized deployment model using Docker, improving environment consistency.

Worked within Agile methodologies, managing backlog deliverables in JIRA and participating in Scrum ceremonies.

Projects
Enterprise Event-Driven Order Platform
Cloud-native microservices platform built in Spring Boot with an event-driven backbone, exposing GraphQL and REST APIs to React-based internal dashboards. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes on OpenShift with full CI/CD through Jenkins.

AI-Assisted Code Quality Dashboard
A full-stack tool that leverages GitHub Copilot and AI-driven analysis to surface code quality and test-coverage trends across repositories, integrated with GitHub Enterprise and CI pipelines.

Education
B.S. in Computer Science | North Carolina State University
Graduated 2016

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