Senior Software Engineer

Description

This senior software engineering role is based at 5404 Jandy Place, Los Angeles, CA 90066.

The work covers the full path of a software component, from gathering requirements and designing it to coding, testing and maintaining it.

The team builds and runs software products and solutions for the company.

Responsibilities

• Work out the gaps, updates and changes needed between customer and business expectations and the current product, scoped to the iteration when the team uses agile.
• Sort requirements into their applicable types.
• Spot risks and problems early in requirements gathering, tell the right stakeholders, and suggest fixes.
• Help write user stories for software components, applications and complex systems.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together across the modules and components of a product.
• Weigh trade-offs in component design against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs covering mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for specific modules.
• Build and configure lean code for whole components or applications, making sure they meet business, technical and non-functional needs, including low maintenance, high availability and high scalability.
• Help choose languages, development standards and tools for coding and configuration.
• Learn the basics of new languages and frameworks that will be useful for future work.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive and routine work in CI/CD, testing and other processes.
• Build telemetry features on your own where needed.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied in code and configuration.
• Turn customer requirements into test objectives, then identify and write test cases for components and modules.
• Run test cases to find errors and defects across whole components, using suitable tools for each type of testing.
• Track and analyze defects in components and modules, and run regression tests after every code change.
• Review defects from past engineering work to prevent similar ones from coming back.
• Find and fix performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex maintenance on applications without close supervision.
• Monitor application performance by tracking and analyzing the right metrics.
• Perform corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance, along with re-engineering work.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance data and performance data, and report your findings.
• Assess change requests and decide which are valid and feasible.

Requirements

• Either a Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (any) or a related field, plus 2 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (any) or a related field, plus 5 years of progressively responsible software engineering or related experience after the bachelor's degree.
• Experience designing and building RESTful web services in Java.
• Experience with Core Java and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with the Spring Framework for backend development.
• Experience building scalable web applications with the Play framework.
• Experience with functional programming languages such as Scala.
• Experience with event streaming and messaging using Kafka.
• Experience with containerization using Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation using CircleCI and Jenkins.
• Experience with cloud services and service architecture on AWS.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing.
• Experience designing scalable multi-tier or distributed applications.
• The company accepts any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research or professional experience in place of the required skills.

Conditions

Salary range is $189,051 per year to $216,000 per year.

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefits and eligibility can depend on your job classification and length of employment, and may be governed by specific plan or program terms that can change.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and keeps a drug-free workplace.

Benefits

• Competitive pay plus performance-based incentive awards.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Education assistance, with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.