Engineer III, Software/Web Development

GENERAL DESCRIPTION / PURPOSE:

The Engineer III, Software/Web development position is responsible for the design and development of innovative software and web solutions in a challenging hi tech engineering environment.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Analysis

• Analyzes software and data requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Consults with engineers, data analysists and other IT specialists to determine system specifications to meet the functional and performance requirements.
• Communicate concepts, recommendations, and solutions effectively with customers as well as management, verbally and in written format.

Design & Development

• Architects, designs, develops software for desktop, web applications and cloud solutions to meet customer/product requirements.
• Develops application services on AWS, integrating with cloud-native services (e.g., Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
• Develops and implements procedures and documentation for software system testing, validation, and training.
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Testing, Installation, & Commissioning

• Coordinate testing, installation, and commissioning of software at customer sites.

Maintenance & Support

• Provide support and maintenance for existing software and web applications/products.
• Work with stakeholders including the Operations, Engineering and Data teams to support specific software and data reporting/visualization needs.
• Must have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with customers as well as management.

Technical Leadership

• Ability to lead projects and provide technical oversight to a team of developers.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:

• Action Oriented
• Adaptability
• Technical Learning
• Value Based
• Accountability

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related Engineering discipline

• Experience/skills:
  • 8 + years of hands-on Software Design and Development, Object Oriented Analysis/Design & GUI development experience required.
  • 5+ years of full stack .NET Framework with C#, Web development (.NET core, ASP.net, web API).
  • 5+ years of building front-end React 18+ applications using TypeScript.
  • 3+ years of working with SQL and NoSQL databases 
  • 3+ years [BG1] working with the following AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch)

• 11+ years combination of education and experience in software engineering in leu of education

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related Engineering discipline

Experience/Skills: 

• Experience using Claude Code CLI and managing an agentic environment (*.md, tooling, workflows).
• Experience with popular front-end tools: TanStack, TailwindCSS, Zod, and shadcn.
• Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code and Terraform.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures on AWS, pub/sub (SNS/SQS), message queues, and streaming data ingestion, and the tradeoffs between these patterns.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Up to 15 % travel including international, using any method of transportation.
• Ability to apply high levels of cognitive, analytical, retention and reasoning.
• Excellent communication skills used within any social context.
• Can stand, sit, walk, reach, balance, stoop, kneel, hear, taste and smell.
• Can see up close, distances, colors and has use of peripheral vision and depth perception.
• Can tolerate variable and sometimes extreme physical conditions during visits or inspections of company equipment in a railroad environment.
• Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs.

Fluency in English is required for this position, as the direct manager will be based in the U.S.