Software Engineer

About the Role

• Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core.
• Utilizes secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices.
• Partners with teams including design and product management to create customer solutions.
• Creates technical design documentation and contributes to user documentation.
• Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers.
• Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Contributes to the solution of straightforward business problems regarding operations, products, services, or customers.
• Analyzes information, asks questions, and checks for understanding using standard procedures within the job family.
• Establishes relationships and collaborates effectively with own team members.
• Collaborates with others on projects and works on small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
• Applies understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices (e.g., requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing).
• Participates in the delivery of technical design features with guidance.
• May apply understanding of how related features in a product solve customer needs.
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with guidance.
• Performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the development process under supervision.
• Assists in code reviews and addresses feedback.
• Executes tests for scale, reliability, and velocity within own code.
• Applies knowledge in secure coding principles and reviews others' code for compliance.
• Monitors and triages incident reports, participates in postmortems, and potential on-call duties.
• Demonstrates expertise in one component of the codebase.
• Shares knowledge from independent learning with the team.
• Estimates time to complete assignments and communicates status, blockers, and delays to the team.
• Identifies paths to eliminate blockers and meet deadlines.
• Collaborates with team members to share learnings or assist in problem-solving/resolution.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelors + 2 years of related experience OR Masters + 0 years of related experience.
• Requires basic knowledge of theories, principles, and concepts within a technical discipline.
• Has exposure to current technologies through coursework or internship.

Preferred Qualifications vary based on the team and business needs.