Senior Software Engineer

Description

This senior software engineering role is based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

The work covers the full cycle of a software component, from requirements and design through build, testing and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Compare customer and business expectations with the existing product and solutions to find gaps, updates and changes, per iteration when working in agile.
• Sort requirements into their applicable types.
• Spot likely solution risks during requirements gathering, tell the relevant stakeholders, and propose corrective steps.
• Help write user stories for components, applications and complex features in agile work.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together across the modules of a product, weighing trade-offs against business requirements.
• Turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for specific modules or components.
• Build lean code for whole components or applications that meets business, technical and non-functional needs, with a focus on maintainability, high availability and scalability.
• Help choose suitable languages, development standards and tools for coding and configuration.
• Learn the basics of new languages and frameworks on your own initiative for future work.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive and routine work in CI/CD, testing and other processes where applicable.
• Add telemetry features on your own as needed.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied to components and applications during development and configuration.
• Map customer requirements to test objectives, then design test cases for each component or module.
• Run test cases against the code to find errors and defects across the whole component, using suitable testing tools for each type of test.
• Track and analyze defects in components and modules, and run regression tests after each code change to confirm fixes.
• Review defects from past projects and solutions to prevent similar ones.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex maintenance on applications without direct supervision.
• Track and analyze metrics to evaluate application performance.
• Carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance, plus re-engineering work.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Assess change requests to decide which are valid and feasible.
• Keep the project on track against approved milestones and timelines.

Requirements

• Either a Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related area, plus 1 year of software engineering or related experience.
• Or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of the same fields, plus 3 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Experience designing and building REST API web services in Java.
• Experience coding in object-oriented languages, including Java.
• Experience testing and troubleshooting web servers, including Tomcat.
• Experience writing test cases with JUnit.
• Experience writing SQL database queries.
• Experience working in agile methodology across analysis, design, implementation, maintenance and support.
• Experience writing bash scripts to automate jobs.
• Experience designing and querying NoSQL databases.
• Experience using system monitoring and metrics tools.
• Experience analyzing application performance with open source tools, including JMeter.
• Any amount of professional experience with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

The salary range is $150,080 per year to $234,000 per year.

Additional pay includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

The company keeps a drug-free workplace with zero tolerance for illegal drug and alcohol use on the job.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with performance-based incentive awards.
• Health coverage for medical, vision and dental.
• Financial benefits including a 401(k), a stock purchase plan and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off including PTO with sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Eligibility for some benefits depends on job classification and length of employment, and benefits and plan terms may change. Details are available from the company.