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Job Summary

As a Software Engineer IV – Applications, you will be a critical member of our team leading the development of IoT solutions that include cloud, web and mobile applications. This is not an average position where you might be restricted to one small piece of a system, but the opportunity to envision, design, influence and create high performing software as part of a commercial product. You will work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, UX/UI Designers, and Testers within a team, across teams, and across departments/business units to deliver engaging IoT-based solutions for Generac customers. You will be involved in exciting technical challenges by analyzing, designing, building, troubleshooting, and deploying vital applications and APIs while always thinking about usability, reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance. Reporting to Software Development Manager, you will be part of the team responsible for helping to deliver mission critical customer facing cloud web and mobile applications. You will help to create more consistent user interfaces and reusable components across applications, build high performing APIs, proactively test and tune all aspects of the application infrastructure, monitor and respond to system notifications and alerts and continually work to optimize and improve the performance, security, and reliability of our applications.

Essential Duties • Help build a software engineering culture across the department by sharing your best practices, approaches, documentation, and code with other engineering teams. • Design solutions for complex or critical problems in the IoT and Connectivity areas by collaborating directly with stakeholders, product managers, UX/UI and other technical leads. • Lead team(s) to deliver solutions that meet or exceed business needs by having a deep understanding of the business need and/or user problem. • Mentor engineering staff on emerging industry trends, technical standards, and design/coding best practices. • Apply pair or mob programming techniques to improve work quality, knowledge distribution, and team cohesiveness • Able to troubleshoot complicated issues in a cloud-based SaaS environment and manage live production incidents, debug/troubleshoot device, application and infrastructure issues, follow and implement best practices. • Document your system knowledge as you acquire it over time and ensure critical system information is readily available to those who need it. • Monitor application performance, take steps to improve overall performance and stability and follow through with implementation • Design, write, ship, and motivate the creation of software and systems to increase reuse, observability, product reliability and organizational efficiency • Prioritize design and architecture at all scales that promote the ease and efficiency of ongoing change and maintenance over the software’s lifetime. • Work closely with software engineers and testers to ensure the system is responding properly to non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and availability • Keep up to date with security and proactively identify, diagnose, and solve complex security issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science or equivalent technical degree • 7 years of experience in commercial software development in software engineering role • 3 years of experience leading agile teams and mentoring junior team members • Demonstratable experience in web UI frameworks such as VueJS, ReactJS, and/or AngularJS • Ability to establish best practices and frameworks to increase engineering efficiencies • Demonstratable experience with Unit Testing tools and Test Driven Development practices • Experience applying pair or mob programming techniques • Experience building and changing resilient distributed systems software • Experience with CI/CD principles and automated pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using C#, Java, JavaScript and/or other commercial software languages • Experience working with IoT based solutions and devices • Experience with code repositories such as Git, Subversion, etc. • Experience implementing performant APIs for internal and external consumption • Experience designing, implementing and operating cloud-based systems in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud • Experience designing data models and leveraging different data storage technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, big data stores, etc. • Experience with secure coding and best practices • Experience with authentication standards such as OAuth2 and/or OpenID Connect

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy • Exceptional understanding of development activities and tasks • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills • Excellent attention to detail, critical thinking and problem-solving skills • Excellent time management skills, able to meet deadlines, manage time effectively

Physical Demands : While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

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Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

As one of the leaders and largest suppliers of power generation equipment and technology, the work we do touches millions of lives. Employees at Generac are encouraged to be innovative and are valued as an integral part of our global team. Our challenging goals develop knowledgeable employees dedicated to helping continue Generac’s success. Generac provides individuals the opportunity to work in a fast-paced agile work environment where their work makes a difference in people’s lives and their own.