Senior Software Engineer

Description

The role is a senior software engineer position based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

The work spans requirements, design, build, testing and production support for software components and applications.

Responsibilities

• Compare customer and business needs with what the current product and solutions already do, and identify the gaps, updates and changes required. For agile work, do this for each iteration.
• Sort requirements into their applicable types.
• Spot likely risks and problems during requirements gathering, alert the right stakeholders, and recommend fixes.
• Help write user stories for components, applications and complex features in agile projects.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together across the modules of a product.
• Weigh trade-offs in component design against business goals.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mockups, pseudocode and functional logic for specific modules.
• Build and configure lean code for whole components and applications that meet business, technical and non-functional needs, including maintainability, high availability and scalability.
• Help choose suitable languages, development standards and tools.
• Learn the fundamentals of programming languages and frameworks that will be useful for future work.
• Write scripts to automate repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD, testing and other processes where applicable.
• Build telemetry features as needed, working independently.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied during code development and configuration.
• Translate customer requirements into test objectives, then design and write test cases for components and modules.
• Run test cases to find errors and defects across the full component, using suitable tools for each type of testing.
• Track and analyze defects, and run regression testing after every code change to fix them in all affected places.
• Review defects from past projects and solutions to prevent similar ones.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex maintenance independently.
• Monitor application performance using relevant metrics, and carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance and re-engineering.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Assess change requests to determine which are valid and feasible.
• Keep the project on track against approved milestones and timelines.

Requirements

• A Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related field, plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or a related area; or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of those fields, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Designing and building REST API web services with Java and Spring Boot, and writing object-oriented Java with multi-threading and exception handling.
• Building microservices with Spring Boot, using dependency injection and auto-configuration.
• Implementing data processing and analytics on Google Cloud Platform, using SQL with BigQuery and Dataproc.
• Leading end-to-end system design, development, testing and production launch.
• Building Angular single-page applications with routing, form validation and HTTP client services.
• Creating custom Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring and data visualization.
• Writing unit and integration tests with JUnit, Mockito and other test frameworks, and running code quality and security scans with SonarQube.
• Configuring Docker and Kubernetes for scalable microservice deployment.
• Implementing asynchronous messaging with Apache Kafka for event streaming and scalable communication.
• Managing workflows and issue tracking in Jira boards and applying Agile methods.
• Building ETL/ELT data pipelines with Google Dataproc and Apache Spark for big data processing.
• Any amount of experience with these skills is acceptable.

Conditions

Base salary ranges from $187,075/year to $234,000/year.

Eligibility for some benefits depends on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits may change and may follow the terms of a specific plan or program. Details are on the company's benefits site.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and keeps a drug-free workplace, with zero tolerance for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive awards, paid annually or quarterly, alongside competitive pay.
• Health coverage: medical, vision and dental.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), a stock purchase plan and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off: PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover, education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.