Software Engineer III

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EMPLOYER:         Forrester Research, Inc.
POSITION:         Software Engineer III
WORKSITE:          60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140

JOB DUTIES:                       

• Work closely with a dynamic technical team and partners in product management, digital experience design, QA, and DevOps to build high-value software for our clients;
• Drive decisions in all phases of the software development life cycle;
• Drive solutions for teams by solving complex problems, troubleshooting microservice APIs (application programming interfaces) and multicomponent systems;
• Mentor fellow software engineers and collaborators to help them build the right set of skills and processes, allowing Forrester to deliver innovative digital products;
• Work with our data scientists to implement new machine learning approaches, feedback mechanisms, and data pipelines that help us better respond to client needs;
• Design, build, and maintain enterprise web-based Java solutions and microservices in production application; and 
• Design and execute all levels of automated testing (unit, load, and performance), including writing unit tests in JMockit/Junit/Mockito.

Telecommuting permitted up to 60%

JOB REQUIREMENTS:  The position requires a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a Software Engineer III-related occupation.

Position requires 5 years of experience in each of the following: 

• Designing, building, and maintaining enterprise web-based Java solutions and microservices in production applications; 
• Utilizing Spring Boot and Spring Cloud to develop microservice applications to support the overall business functionality of websites; 
• Utilizing SQL to generate reports, develop SQL queries which help the above spring micro services to extract information to display on websites;
• Designing and executing automated tests including junit and performance tests;
• Defining stories and acceptance criteria in JIRA, functional enhancements and application maintenance. 

Telecommuting permitted up to 60%.

How to Apply: Email resume, including job history to Caitlin Busconi at [email protected] referencing FR 12122.86.5. EOE. Forrester Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

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