Entry Level Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities
This individual would become an integral part of the Office of the CTO (OCTO) team and would receive continuous direction and supervision from principal architects. This is a high visibility entry level position offering career growth in several areas.

The envisioned role will be created to begin the work of transforming corporate capabilities; improve Progress’ current business capability with respect to competitive analysis, interoperability testing and demo creation. It is expected that this role would carry out the tactical work of establishing a competitive/interoperability lab, installing and assembling the environments necessary to execute competitive, interoperability and demo creation activities, and establishing the processes and methodologies to carry out continuous research and analysis in these areas. Day to day activity of this role will place the individual in constant contact with Product Marketing and Product Management teams, providing additional experiential exposure.

This individual must have an enthusiasm for the competitive aspect of this role: ‘discovering the competitor’s weakness for exploitation’, so to speak. They must be motivated to go on the exploration for situations where our strengths can be leveraged. The individual would also need to be clever and creative in the technical approaches they employed to carry out their objectives efficiently. They must also be meticulous enough to execute the objective with precision, deep insight and attention to detail

Roles and Responsibilities:

Become proficient on Progress, eco-system and competitive products in order to carry out the objectives below.

Establish testing lab facility as well as processes and operating practices for sustained delivery of testing and demo creation

Establish testing lab facility as well as processes and operating practices for sustained delivery of testing and demo creation

Conduct various forms of product performance testing

Develop deployable enterprise integration and solution patterns for comparative, interoperability and demonstration purposes

• Conduct deep Competitive analysis
• Produce filed oriented reports that expose current weakness and produce roadmap analysis that informs future product direction.
Build Demonstrations and PoC’s ‘kits’ related to integration patterns, event fabric, mash-ups, web services, process orchestration, etc.

Qualifications
• Energetic individual with a BSCS and attention to detail and eagerness to learn
• Prior experience with systems administration and/or writing code in Java, Java EE, .NET is a plus
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Works well in a team environment