Software Engineer 14491 A leading professional networking company is looking for a Software Engineer. The right candidate will develop and operate mission critical services and applications that are used customers and employees worldwide. The company offers a great work environment! Software Engineer Pay and Benefits: * Hourly pay: $60-$70/hr * Worksite: Leading professional networking company (Sunnyvale, CA - Hybrid, (3+days/week, Tues-Thurs)) * W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL * 40 hours/week, 7 Month Assignment Software Engineer Responsibilities: * Lead the technical design, implementation, and deployment of software solutions. * Coordinate and lead cross-functional teams, ensuring that projects are successfully executed meeting our standards for quality software engineering. * Design and ship high volume of elegant code with foresight to avoid performance, scalability, usability, maintainability, availability and testability issues. * Maintain understanding of latest technologies and tools and leverage them to improve existing products and services. * Identify opportunities within the team for potential leverage and reuse by developing libraries, APIs, and shared services. * Assist in the onboarding and ramp-up of new engineers. * Contribute towards the definition of product and technical roadmaps. Software Engineer Qualifications: * 4+ years of software engineering experience. * BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field. * Working experience in the development as well as consumption of Web Services APIs (JSON / XML / RPC). * Working experience of build systems, databases, and Linux-based infrastructures. * Proven track record of developing large-scale highly available services and systems in either Java or Python or C#/,net. * Demonstrated understanding of Computer Science fundamentals. * Demonstrated understanding of architectural models and technology stack used for developing highly scalable and highly available web applications and systems. * Demonstrated communication skills, both written and verbal. * Understanding of Agile Software Development methodologies.