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PKWARE is looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join the Core Libraries team. This is an individual contributor role, with a focus on enhancing capabilities, emphasizing quality, and driving development of our JVM libraries. This individual will report to a Manager of Software Engineering.

About the team

The Core Libraries team is responsible for producing libraries that are consumed by internal development teams. The team is comprised of software engineers and quality engineers who work to empower the other product teams by developing the discovery, masking, and encryption capabilities. The team strives to use the best tool for the job, but most new development is in Kotlin.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and test security-focused software in Java/Kotlin.
• Craft the components of new features and updates to existing software, favoring well documented, reusable, and testable code.
• Support & promote our engineering standards to continuously improve the consistency and quality of our codebases and processes.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of professional JVM experience – writing production code & tests.
• Ability (& desire!) to write automated unit & integration tests.
• Kotlin – Interest in learning (or prior knowledge).
• IntelliJ – Know how to efficiently develop using the IDE.
• Comfort with open-source projects: awareness, usage, bug-reporting.
• Understand build tool concepts and ideally be comfortable modifying Gradle builds.
• Solid communication skills, both verbal and written, on technical and non-technical
• topics, and with audiences in mind.
• Ability to work independently, manage workload and priorities, know when to ask for help and communicate proactively.
• Be curious and have an appetite for learning.
• High desire for quality & willingness to accept feedback.

Be ready for…

• Plenty of opportunity to immediately & directly improve the codebase.
• Highly interactive code reviews & pair programming to promote learning and good
• code.
• Working with the JVM, using the latest versions of Kotlin and Java.
• Working with GraalVM & Native Image.
• Opportunity to learn & work with JFR and continuous performance monitoring.
• Long-term product ownership. Our libraries are here to stay.

PKWARE, Inc. is…

PKWARE offers the only data discovery and protection solution that locates and secures sensitive data to minimize organizational risks and costs, regardless of device or environment. Our ultra-efficient, scalable software is simple to use on a broad range of data types and repositories, enabling precise, automated visibility and control of personal data, even in the fastest-moving, most complex IT environments. With more than 1,200 customers, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies, PKWARE continues to innovate as an award-winning global leader in data discovery, security, and compliance. To learn more, visit PKWARE.com.

And just so you know…

PKWARE is located in Milwaukee, WI, and offers a competitive compensation package and other perks.

PKWARE provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, veteran status, membership in the national guard, state defense force or any reserve component of the federal or state military forces, age, non-relevant arrest or conviction record, use or nonuse of lawful products off the company’s premises during non-working hours, or other characteristic protected by law.