Accuweather The Software Developer II designs and develops backend software to process real-time weather data for AccuWeather's products. The role involves collaboration, troubleshooting, and maintaining reliable, scalable backend systems.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain backend software processors that ingest, validate, transform, and distribute real-time weather data.
Collaborate with software engineers, data operations, product managers, and business stakeholders to design and implement processing solutions that support AccuWeather's consumer and enterprise products.
Develop new processing capabilities and enhance existing processors to support new weather data providers, data formats, business requirements, and product features.
Design and implement database schemas and supporting SQL objects used by backend processing applications.
Develop software that is reliable, maintainable, testable, and observable, with a focus on successful deployment and operation in production environments.
Collaborate with Enterprise Database Administrators and other platform teams to test, deploy, and maintain database changes in production.
Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve software defects, production issues, and operational incidents affecting weather data processing systems.
Write and maintain technical documentation for software components, processing workflows, system changes, and operational procedures.
Revise and enhance existing software to improve functionality, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Stay current with emerging technologies and software development best practices, applying them where appropriate to improve team capabilities and processing systems.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of team workflows, quality assurance practices, documentation, and development processes.
Qualification
Required QualificationsPreferred QualificationsExperience with event-drivenExperience working with weatherExperience with Microsoft SQL Server
Required
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
3+ years of experience designing and developing backend services.
Experience developing software using Scala or Java, with exposure to functional programming concepts.
Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Experience working with relational databases, including database schema design and SQL.
Experience processing structured and semi-structured data formats such as XML and JSON, working with RESTful APIs, and using regular expressions.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with event-driven, distributed, or message-based systems.
Experience working with weather, environmental, geospatial, or other Earth science data.
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
Experience developing applications on Microsoft Azure.