Staff Software Engineer

Description

Staff Software Engineer role based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

The work covers requirements, design, build, testing and maintenance of the company's software products and their components.

Responsibilities

• Scout existing products and solutions in the current catalogue that could meet business and technical needs.
• Spot the differences between what customers and the business expect and what current products and solutions deliver.
• Sort requirements into their relevant types.
• During requirements gathering, foresee solution risks and problems, alert the people concerned, and propose corrective steps.
• Help draft user stories for components and applications.
• Log and study defects in a component or module, and run regression tests to fix them across every code change.
• Review defects from past engineering work so that similar ones do not come back.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Handle complex maintenance tasks on applications on your own.
• Track suitable metrics to measure how an application is performing.
• Carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance engineering work.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Decide which change requests are valid and feasible.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together for particular components or modules.
• Weigh design trade-offs against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudocode and detailed functional logic for specific modules or components.
• Choose suitable frameworks, platforms and environments for coding, configuration and scripting.
• Help build telemetry by working out which data and metrics the domain needs.
• Take part in ad-hoc code reviews to confirm baseline safeguards against known risks.
• Write and configure lean code for the whole product or system, making sure it meets business and non-functional needs, including maintainability, availability and scalability.
• Put software engineering requirements into programming order after analyzing them.
• Lead the creation of scripts that automate repetitive, routine work in CI/CD, testing or other processes across the domain.
• Turn customer requirements into a test strategy.
• Select, introduce and put in place testing tools.
• Define the scope and method of testing for each requirement.
• Make sure test cases cover every test scenario for product and solution requirements.
• Help run test cases to check code and find errors and defects across the whole product.

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 software engineering or related experience; or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of those fields, plus 4 years of such experience.
• Experience designing and building REST API web services in Java and TypeScript.
• Experience building scalable microservices with REST and GraphQL.
• Experience writing object-oriented code in TypeScript and Java.
• Experience building feature-oriented front-end components with React JS, Angular JS, HTML5, SCSS, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.
• Experience with CDN and Akamai MMS for performance monitoring and tuning.
• Experience building REST API web services in NodeJS, deployed on GCP for faster development and release.
• Experience using Cordova to convert and build native iOS and Android apps.
• Experience writing API design and technical documentation in Stoplight.
• Experience writing secure, scalable queries with an ORM to store, fetch and change data in NoSQL databases.
• Experience meeting 508 compliance and web standards on every web tool built, using CCA, SortSite, NVDA and Axe.
• Experience building and maintaining user authorization after validation, using JWT and browser-level cookies.
• Experience handling data from multiple streams while keeping sequence and dependencies, using RxJS operators.
• Experience with test-driven development using Mocha, Karma, Jasmine, Jest and Protractor.
• Experience managing code with Git version control.
• Experience using Angular Material 10 where needed to style in-house widgets.
• Graduate coursework, graduate research or professional experience with these skills is accepted in any amount.

Conditions

Salary range is $143,000/year to $286,000/year.

Performance incentives are paid annually or quarterly on top of salary.

Based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

Eligibility for some benefits depends on job classification and length of employment.

Benefits can change and may follow the terms of a specific plan or program.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

The company maintains a drug-free workplace with zero tolerance for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job, applying to all employees.

Benefits

• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase program and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance covering 100% of college degree costs, paid by the company.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement, among others.