Software Engineer

About the role

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Position Description:

The Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in designing, building, and supporting sophisticated software solutions that prioritize scalability across diverse platforms. This position focuses on leveraging automation for continuous integration and delivery to enhance velocity and maintain high-quality standards. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, translating project requirements into technical specifications and delivering robust, efficient software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Actively participate in design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions that align with project requirements and long-term goals.

Analyze and mitigate performance bottlenecks or unexpected behavior to ensure optimal software performance.

Collaborate closely with team members, including developers, designers, and product managers, to align on project goals, requirements, and timelines.

Collaborate effectively with team members on coding tasks and participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and adherence to coding standards.

Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to address identified issues and ensure software meets specified quality standards.

Create and review technical design documents or diagrams, and plan and design software components or modules to meet scalability and efficiency objectives.

Debug and diagnose issues within software applications, employing analytical skills to investigate and resolve technical challenges and bugs promptly.

Develop and execute comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and quality assurance procedures to verify software reliability, functionality, and performance.

Engage in code reviews to promote code quality, facilitate knowledge sharing, and adhere to best practices within the development team.

Write, modify, and optimize code to implement new features, address bugs, or enhance existing functionality.

Competencies

Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.

Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

Application Development - The ability and skill to develop software through use of programming languages required for job responsibilities

Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.

Document and Model User Requirements - Ability to utilize the appropriate modeling tool(s) to diagram the requirements from data and state changes, process and process improvements, as well as use cases and user stories; affinity diagram, managing changes to reuiqrements and requests, technical writing

Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.

IT Data Management - The ability and skill to develop and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization.

IT Support - The ability and skill to monitor, diagnose and fix problems with technology products.

IT Testing - The ability and skill to design, execute and report on systems/service tests to ensure that an application functions as specified in the requirements.

Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.

Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Provides Technical Support - Ability to employ customer-oriented behaviors that help engineers connect with their customers in productive and efficient ways, creating positive, defining moments; Communicates confidently during service interaction, Provides relevant product/service updates, Sets appropriate expectations

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Techniques - Ability to understand and apply the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and maintenance, to effectively develop software that supports modelling activities

Troubleshoots Technical Issues - Ability to employ a systematic process for solving technical issues by identifying the problem and selecting an appropriate solution- defines the problem, Identifies the cause of problems, Isolates the problem, Justifies a solution, Resolves the problem, Verifies the problem

Qualifications

Bachelors.

2 years of related experience preferred

Skills

Communicates Effectively

Cultivates Innovation

Decision Quality

Document and Model User Requirements

Drives Results

Ensures Accountability

Nimble Learning

IT Data Management

IT Support

IT Testing

Plans & Aligns

Optimizes Work Processes

Provides Technical Support

Tech Savvy

Troubleshoots Technical Issues

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Techniques

Action Planning

Collaboration

Application Development

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

Physical Demands Category:

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

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