Software Engineer IV

Overview

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit

Responsibilities

1. Translate high level requirements to actionable tasks/deliverables.
2. Contribute to architecture design for both large and small scale systems, including some documentation.
3. Able to analyze and build upon existing framework.
4. Design, build and operate distributed software services for transaction processing.
5. Produce high quality software that is unit tested and continuously integrated.
6. Collaborate with QA in test planning and test coverage.
7. Collaborate with DevOps and CI/CD in operational visibility, triaging incidents, and deployment planning.
8. A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment.
9. Actively participate in growing and coaching fellow team members.
10. Understand future business goals from Product Owners and ensure architecture and system design can support those goals.
11. Build proof-of-concepts to validate architectural and design choices and evangelize those technical choices to other teams.
12. Able to understand, diagnose and then solve deep technical and performance issues across the platform.
13. Passion for technology and innovation.

Qualifications

1. BA/BS/MA/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field preferred.
2. Solid programming experience in Delphi and working knowledge in SQL Server.
3. Experience developing financial system software is a plus.
4. Familiarity with unit testing and high code coverage.
5. Writing modular, maintainable code.
6. Experience designing, building and debugging critical systems.
7. Ability to clearly communicate technical topics to both technical and non-technical people.
8. Demonstrated ability to work well in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team environment.
9. Experience working with code repositories.
10. Role is mostly Delphi, but interest in other languages is a plus.

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