Senior Software Engineer

About Ferguson:

Since 1953, Ferguson has been a source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. Together We Build Better infrastructure, better homes and better businesses. We exist to make our customers complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable. We proactively solve problems, adapt and grow to continuously serve our customers, communities and each other. Ferguson is proud to provide best-in-class products, service and capabilities across the following industries: Commercial/Mechanical, Facilities Supply, Fire and Fabrication, HVAC, Industrial, Residential Trade, Residential Building and Remodel, Waterworks and Residential Digital Commerce. Ferguson has approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations. Ferguson is a community of proud associates who operate with the shared purpose of building something meaningful. You will build a career that you are proud of, at a company you can believe in.

JOB FUNCTION:

The Ferguson Home Product and Engineering job family designs, develops, maintains and deploys the engineering and technical solutions that drive the Residential Builder, Showroom and Homeowner experience for our associates and customers from a digital perspective. As a member of this team, you will work closely with experienced developers, analysts, product managers, designers and business partners to continue driving our best-in-class omnichannel digital experience. General expectations of the Ferguson Home Engineering Org include leveraging modern development practices and a variety of technologies and languages, paired with strong communication and problem-solving skills to drive business priorities through our product and platform roadmaps.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop web services and integrations to automate, improve, or change business processes and procedures.
• Consistently deliver quality software that implements the design per business and technical requirements.
• Ensure that developed software is both performant and scalable to meet Ferguson's evolving business needs.
• Involved in project from analysis through implementation to ensure all aspects of the technology plan is accounted for, understood, defined, and executed successfully.
• Develop effective unit and integrations testing procedures.
• Build technical designs that properly leverage Ferguson architecture, using industry standard notation.
• Effectively leverage thorough peer reviews of design and code to ensure that documented coding standards and design patterns are followed.
• Provide mentorship to other developers.
• Support small and medium sized projects from analysis through implementation by serving as developer.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Architects throughout the SDLC.
• Work with third party software providers to ensure solutions meet the needs of Ferguson and its partners.
• Provide estimates for development work and understand the schedule and commitments.
• In addition to the essential job duties identified, all associates will perform duties as requested by management.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Related or Business-Related field is required to perform at expectation.
• Software Development experience can be substituted for education.
• Minimum of 5 years Ferguson or digital commerce and software domain knowledge is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years software development experience at an enterprise level is typically required.
• Experience and expertise with developing Enterprise Java with a specialty in web services and integrations – both RESTful APIs and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with either React and or Angular front-end user interfaces
• Experience with Apache Camel, Spring Boot, and Docker is preferred.
• Experience and expertise with industry standard application servers, messaging platforms, relational and NoSQL databases and Kubernetes.
• Azure AKS Microservices and Functions.
• Proven track record for delivering and implementing software leveraging a variety of integrations design patterns.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, efficient, and an active listener with the ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio and Word.
• Ability to work on simultaneous projects.
• Communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written formats.
• Open to learning new systems, technologies, and tools.
• Technical background in applications development with accompanying understanding of the many architectures and platforms leveraged in today's cloud-driven solutions.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes and procedures.
• Ability to work independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing technical guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems.
• Analyze and understand technical documentation and code/configuration.
• Proficient in a variety of formal and informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small and large groups.
• Ability to effectively analyze and provide technical consulting on complex projects.