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Oracle Software Developer 5 in Des Moines, Iowa

Job Description

This job will require you to design and deliver a new set of enterprise applications across a broad range of functional areas that will serve a vast community of users across the globe. Experience with software architecture, cloud infrastructure, frontend/backend development, agile methodologies, and clean code principles is desired. We are a startup team with huge plans, a large vision, and a determination to move fast.

We believe in “Done is better than perfect”. We also believe in “Continuous Improvement”. Put these two together, and we strive to get things done faster. You will also apply your learnings from your experience, especially from your mistakes and the challenges you've faced - e.g. technical debt, developer productivity issues, troubleshooting and diagnosability issues, usability problems, performance issues, reliability challenges, etc. You and your teammates will bring in a broad range of perspectives, experience, and knowledge to help build outstanding applications that will serve our community!

Minimum Qualifications

  1. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.

  2. 6+ years of software engineering or related experience.

  3. 3-5 years of experience in mentoring and leading teams by providing technical expertise in, preferably, 0-1 product development. You will be the technical lead of a team of 6-10 engineers.

  4. Strong system design knowledge and distributed systems architecture best practices

  5. Knowledge of clean code principles and experience writing great code in Java or other OO languages.

  6. Strong expertise in System Design, REST, SQL, and Data model

  7. Experienced in any of the computing platforms, such as OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure

  8. Experience with CI/CD

  9. Hands-on experience working with incident management, monitoring, observability, and testing methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

  1. Good understanding of authentication, authorization, and access control mechanisms

  2. Experience working with AI and Data Scientists teams. You will be working very closely with our Data Science team to build Gen AI capabilities within our product. This is a high-priority area.

  3. Worked in Agile environments and with Agile methodologies - We are an agile development team

Career Level - IC5

Responsibilities

You will

  1. Work with Product managers to understand and refine requirements

  2. Build prototypes - we are at the very early stages with lots of unknowns. Quick prototyping to answer questions will help you make faster decisions and move quickly.

  3. Think large scale - The applications you will architect and build will be used across the globe.

  4. Build, Deliver, and Own applications - your experience with the entire software development lifecycle will come in handy

  5. Deliver increments in sprints - we will follow Agile development

  6. Do root cause analysis to improve the quality of the product, simplify the development process, and improve the developer productivity - think continuous improvement

This is a startup team building a suite of 0-1 applications. The success of this initiative will depend on your ability to collaborate with a broad range of teams, and your enthusiasm to assist others and manage ambiguity - Think low ego, high empathy, and bias for action!

Success Measures

  1. In 3 months, you'll be fully onboarded and helped with completing a proof of concept for our new product and completed performance and scalability analysis for the supporting 25 million users.

  2. In 6 months,

  3. you'll have a working product that will be available for our demo to our early adopters

  4. You will come up with a detailed design and architecture for this new product.

  5. You will lead a small team of 6-10 engineers by providing your technical expertise and sharing your experience in building a new product.

  6. You'll lead the effort in deciding the right architecture, tools, frameworks, and processes to build, release, and support the product

  7. You will help the team come up with best practices.

  8. 9 months - Help with the Product Go live with a good support/customer success process in place

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

  1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

  2. Short term disability and long term disability

  3. Life insurance and AD&D

  4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

  5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

  6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

  7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

  8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

  9. 11 paid holidays

  10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

  11. Paid parental leave

  12. Adoption assistance

  13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  14. Financial planning and group legal

  15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

About Us

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When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.

We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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Disclaimer:

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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