Associate Software Engineer

Audacious. Ingenious. Real. If that sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Olson 1to1 is a new breed of loyalty and CRM agency, hell-bent on delivering real, personal interactions. We think strategically like a CMO and geek out on tech solutions like a CTO—nimbly navigating a rapidly shifting landscape where customers are shaping new realities, daily. This is where we’re built to thrive. What we do is personal. Because we’re all customers in the end.

An Associate Software Engineer, recently trained in Java, to support and drive forward the end-to-end development of our proprietary CRM platform. On the Olson 1to1 development team, you will design and deliver aspects of the platform that streamline, innovate, and improve the development and deployment of the customized CRM platform.
As an engineer, you will collaborate with the cross functional product team in a dynamic environment. This includes working with the Solution Architect, Product Manager, Business Analyst, UX Designer, Java lead, and QA Team on a day-to-day basis to ensure the solutions are being implemented in a way that meets the vision and requirements. You will own your code from design through implementation and test automation.

• Develop an understanding of the loyalty platform product
• Understand the full software stack.
• Understand the capabilities, features, and module dependencies of the loyalty platform, including APIs.
• Understand Olson 1to1s documented source control and branch management guidelines.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document software, and enhance existing components to ensure that platform meets business needs.
• Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing.
• Estimate engineering work effort for engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks.
• Write tests in an existing Java-based test suite that confirm successful implementation of code.
• Troubleshoot production support issues post – deployment and come up with solutions as required.
• Contribute to the product design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and be able to clearly articulate the implications of design / architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership.
• Design reusable components, frameworks and libraries.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Effectively work with the team and team workflow toolset to manage communication, status, issues and code quality.
• Work very closely with Solution Architect and Java lead to drive solutions.
• Competently use version control (Git) to manage topic branches and Pull Requests.
• Follow Olson 1to1s documented source control and branch management guidelines.
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance.
• Create and update tickets with enough information for the Product Team to estimate and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Drive a quality mindset within the team.

• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming basics, including:
• Basic Java, Classes & Objects,
• Error Handling / Debugging Techniques
• Spring Framework
• Knowledge of Database Driven Web Applications basics, including:
• Server Side Programming
• Consuming and Creating REST Web Services
• Relational Databases & Database Interactions