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Engineer, Software Lead I

Quest Diagnostics


Job Location:

Secaucus, NJ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 11 November 2026 (4 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 8 February 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Work as part of a small agile team to design and implement new features and technologies. Deliverhigh-quality high-performancecode in an agile environment. Use evaluate and learn exciting new technologies that keep products and teams on the cutting edge. Provide technical direction and oversight for a single development project. Contribute to the leadership of cross-functional teams. Help lead the design development and maintenance of complex solutions with a focus on quality performance and resiliency.



Responsibilities
  • Oversee the work being done by other software engineers working on the team coordinating team activities with other teams and product groups maintaining software architecture standards.
  • Consistently defines and applies technologies standards and software engineering practices mentoring other team members
  • Contributes in leading and directing software engineering resources to ensure timely and quality delivery of services.
  • Responsible for mentoring junior talent as well as directing technical staff through technical challenges tasks and projects.
  • Develop key product features within existing large-scale enterprise applications & new strategic initiatives.
  • Participate in the full SDLC involving design implementation testing and launching.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners (QA Business Analyst Tech Pubs etc.) in an Agile/Scrum team environment.
  • Assist with the generation and analysis of business and functional requirements for proposed software solutions.
  • Participate in and sometimes lead architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction.
  • Create design specifications documentation and unit testing plans as defined by the Agile development process.
  • Generate data for project planning including task breakdown and estimation of work for a project. Tracks status within the project as necessary.
  • Delegates tasks to project team members to balance work and increase team cross-training
  • Raises long-term architecture issues within project
  • Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system orapplication andserve as a technical lead on small to midsize complex projects.
  • Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the other component pieces.
  • Maintain and support software solutions post-production.
  • Implements and debugs some of the more involved/complex functionality.



Qualifications

Required WorkExperience:

N/A

Preferred Work Experience:

  • 5-7 years of professional experience in software development.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

  • Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time.

Knowledge:

  • Computer Science fundamentals inobject-oriented (OO) design patterns distributed databases and data modeling techniques.
  • Proficiency in Enterprise Java programming plus one or more modern programming languages
  • Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.

Skills:

  • Ability to multi-task
  • Analytical skills
  • Ability to follow verbal or written instructions
  • Thinking analytically
  • Communication
  • Using effective verbal communication
  • Using effective written communication
  • Handling stress & emotions
  • Concentrating on tasks
  • Making decisions
  • Adjusting to change
  • Examining/observing details
  • Ability to direct and motivate other technical resources.
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Motivation to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects
  • Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating

Education

  • Bachelors Degree Computer Science or equivalent (Required)



Required Experience:

IC


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Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care mana ... View more

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