Software Engineer III

Description

This is a Software Engineer III role based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

The job covers building, testing and maintaining software components and applications, working with business and technical stakeholders from requirements through to upkeep.

Responsibilities

• Keep your technical knowledge current and apply it to plan, run and improve work, advising colleagues on methods and best practices.
• Support customer and business needs, and bring others around to your view and reasoning.
• Review business, stakeholder and technical requirements and help analyse existing solutions to meet them, within the current iteration when working in agile.
• Build and maintain a requirement traceability matrix linking business requirements, functional requirements, designs and test cases.
• Help write user stories for components, modules and simpler requirements, such as those driven by scalability, when working in agile.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders, identify business needs, set up and run the right processes, track progress and results, spot and act on improvements, and adjust to shifting priorities, reorganisations and new duties.
• Write lean code for whole components and applications, making sure they meet business, technical and non-functional needs, including maintainability, high availability and scalability.
• Help choose suitable languages such as JavaScript, Python or C, development standards and tools such as Monday.com, Linx or Embold 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 tasks in CI/CD, testing and other processes where applicable.
• Build telemetry features as needed, working independently.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied to components and applications during development and configuration.
• Ensure your work and the team's work follow company policies, procedures, mission, values and ethics standards, and show others how to do the same, including through the company's open door policy.
• Turn customer requirements into test objectives, then define and create test cases for components and modules.
• Run test cases to find errors and defects across the whole component, using suitable testing tools for each type of test.
• Track and analyse defects in components and modules, and run regression tests to fix them across all affected code changes.
• Review defects from past projects and solutions to prevent similar ones from recurring.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex maintenance on applications independently.
• Track and analyse the right metrics to evaluate application performance, and carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance and re-engineering.
• Analyse application logs, maintenance data 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

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related area, plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or a related field, or a master's degree or equivalent in one of those areas.
• Experience programming in object-oriented languages, including Java, Spring Framework and JavaScript.
• Experience building RESTful microservices with Spring and Spring Boot.
• Experience using Docker and Kubernetes to create, deploy and manage applications in the cloud.
• Experience designing, building and managing APIs for microservices.
• Experience writing documentation, technical manuals and API flow diagrams in Confluence.
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform services, including Cloud Computing and Google Kubernetes Engine, to create, deploy and manage microservices.
• Experience setting up CI/CD flows for automated application deployment.
• Experience performing create, read, update and delete operations on databases such as Oracle, MySQL and Spanner.
• Experience using Splunk and MMS dashboards to troubleshoot and fix development and production issues.
• Experience using Git for version control of application repositories.
• Any amount of experience with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

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

The company is an equal opportunity employer and has a zero tolerance policy for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, plus performance-based incentive awards paid annually or quarterly.
• Health cover including 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, adoption expense reimbursement and more.
• Eligibility for some benefits depends on your job classification and length of employment, and benefits may change or be governed by specific plan terms.