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software engineer Skills for 2020

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What does a software engineer do?

Software Engineers use engineering principles and technical programming to build software, manage databases, and run networks.

They are critical to information technology businesses and may either handle a range of responsibilities (full stack engineer) or work within a specialized discipline such as front-end, back-end, data science, or gaming, among many others.

software engineer Skills Summary

Successful Software Engineers are knowledgeable across a breadth of hard skills comprised of programming languages and specific technologies in addition to soft skills related to innovation, collaboration, and attention to detail.

The best Software Engineers have skills like engineering, design, computer science, programming, java, back end, developer tools, distributed computing, and Kafka on their LinkedIn profiles and resumes. Full report below.

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Job Overview We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering team and build out the next generation of our platform. The ideal candidate is a hands-on platform builder with significant experience in developing scalable data platforms. We’re looking for someone with experience in business intelligence, analytics, data science and data products. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration management and big data technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust scalable solutions that can manage large data sets. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with little supervision. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and test-driven development
            Responsibilities for Software Engineer Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites. Design and develop a processing platform using various configuration management technologies. Test software development methodology in an agile environment.
            Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms. Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement. Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
            Qualifications for Software Engineer Hands-on experience working with technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Map Reduce, Spark, Sqoop, Kafka, Flume, etc. Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies like ansible, chef, puppet, etc. Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
            Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies. Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are typically learned through education or work experience, such as proficiency with specific tools, software or specialized processes.

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Top software engineer Skills Overall

The most common hard skills found across software engineer job descriptions.

engineering

100

design

computer science

technical

Java

programming

Product

software engineering

python

software development

High Impact

Hard to Find software engineer Skills

Hard skills frequently found in the job descriptions that are less likely to appear in software engineer LinkedIn profiles or resumes.

optimizing code

100

technical mentor

objective-c

strategic direction

distributed computing

industry experience

information retrieval

distributed systems

architectures

computer science

Low Impact

Easy to Find software engineer Skills

Hard skills that are most likely to appear in both the job descriptions and LinkedIn profiles or resumes.

github

100

mysql

apache

mongodb

postgresql

technical skills

web application

JIRA

oracle

Soft Skills

Soft skills are harder-to-measure interpersonal "people" skills important for leadership or collaborative environments.

innovative passion vision collaborative hands on high quality

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Jobscan helps job seekers tailor their resumes and LinkedIn profiles for each job opportunity through personalized skill and keyword matching, among other checks.

Our data science team analyzed over 100,000 unique Jobscan user resumes in addition to 8 million job postings from last year to identify the most common keywords and highest impact skills for Software Engineers.

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