[Remote] Software Engineer - Application Development

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MoneyGram is a global payments network that helps people move money across borders through its digital and omnichannel platform. The Software Engineer - Application Development role focuses on delivering well-tested and optimized software, contributing to technical designs, refining requirements, and applying coding and SDLC practices. The engineer will collaborate with stakeholders and peers, mentor junior team members, improve processes, and operate with increasing autonomy in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Has started to develop areas of core technical expertise that they can be expected to produce excellent, well-tested and optimized code for, as well as provide meaningful and actionable feedback to peers on in pull request reviews
• Is able to communicate effectively with stakeholders from product and elsewhere to help refine requirements for new work items
• They are able to start developing and owning technical design documents for work items they have ownership of to understand potential pitfalls and define the architecture and design patterns necessary to execute anything they are working on
• Understands and applies team coding standards, design patterns, and SDLC practices
• Demonstrates consistent improvement and iteration by identifying pain points in technology, tooling and process and as applicable offers actionable constructive feedback and or implements improvements themselves as feasible
• Begins to participate in mentoring more junior peers and sharing technical knowledge with the team via code reviews and other avenues for collaboration
• Communicates progress proactively — written async updates to their team and stakeholders, as well as via synchronous channels during team stand ups and other regular touch bases
• Is able to show growth in proficiency in the estimation process - evidencing growing confidence in estimating areas of core expertise in well understood areas of our technology stack, and ability to better identify and flag risks with new or unknown or merely unfamiliar areas touched upon by new work items. They are also able, as a corollary, to show willingness and ability to identify changes to expectations when new information arises or the nature of the work is otherwise impacted in a way that potentially introduces changes to previous estimates of time or requirements to implement a work item
• Writes automated tests (unit, integration; end-to-end when needed) as a standard practice
• Contributes continuously and with growing confidence and regularity to documentation and internal knowledge sharing
• Shows evidence of self-improvement and focus on growing core technical skills by performing research in their field and sharing new knowledge with their team as well as continuing to improve their own technical mastery
• Shows responsiveness in team meetings and engagement in communication channels, proactively communicates blockers or new information to team members, stakeholders and leaders without needing to be prompted first
• Demonstrates capability to operate with autonomy and responsibility in a fully remote environment - needing less regular oversight and more ability to establish and then tap into relationships with peers, counter parties and stakeholders both within and without their team to be able to complete their work without constantly needing to turn to senior team members or leaders for unblocking
• Learns from incidents and feedback quickly; applies fixes rapidly (hours, not days)

Benefits

• Remote first flexibility
• Generous PTO
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance
• Life, Disability, and other benefits
• 401k with competitive Employer Match
• Community Service Days
• Generous Parental Leave

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