Software Engineer - Specialist

Position Overview

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology. To adhere to our corporate location policies, this resource will be required to be local to the surrounding Atlanta, GA or St.Louis, MO. You are required to adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.

Key Responsibilities

• Deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures. Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners. Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed.
• Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices.
• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters. Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers.
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and be responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs.
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, and SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams.
• Drive technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books. Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activities.
• Implement architecture decision making associated with product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions.
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicating with clarity and precision, and presenting complex information concisely.
• Perform R&D and prototyping/PoC of cloud-native solutions.
• Design and develop cloud-native solutions including big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and micro services using Java, Springboot, GCP SDKs, and GKE/Kubernetes.
• Deploy and release software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines while understanding infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 7+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• 7+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• 7+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions.
• 7+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, and GKE/Kubernetes.
• 7+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, with an understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs.

Preferred Qualifications

• A proven “Multiplier” with strong leadership qualities and the ability to mentor and develop engineers into leaders.
• Demonstrated Customer and Product-centric mindset, with the ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to drive engineering excellence in areas of security, quality, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and efficiency.
• Generative AI experience: familiarity with Vertex AI and/or working on advanced Generative AI (Gen AI) and agentic applications.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex problems and dive deep as needed.
• Proven problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts.
• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps.
• Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others.
• UI development experience (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular, and Bootstrap).
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA, and Microservices.
• Familiarity with source code control systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Experience working in Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP).
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL).
• Experience with Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github).
• Experience developing with modern JDK (v1.7+).
• Experience in Automated Testing (e.g. JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI).