Sr Software Development Eng

Job Overview

This position writes and tests software to aid in development and support of products. Individuals in this role work with Technical Leads on software system architecture and service design and typically leads a module in the system. This position participates in required product development process ceremonies. Employees in this role are responsible for writing and refining technical requirements and technical design documentation.

Key Responsibilities & Expectations

• Execution & Business Ownership
• Drive Outcomes: Take ownership of delivering meaningful business results, managing scope responsibly, and communicating technical risks early.
• Technical Translation: Partner closely with business leaders. Articulate complex architectural decisions and tradeoffs in clear, outcome oriented terms.
• Cross Functional Partnership: Engage security, risk, compliance, and platform teams early, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and advocate for alternative approaches when a project requires them.
• Strategic Technology Advisor: Build trusted relationships with business leaders by translating technical possibilities into business capabilities and clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and investment decisions.
• Engineering & System Design
• Solve Business Problems: Work directly with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges, identify root causes, and design software that creates measurable business impact.
• Architect in Ambiguity: Translate loosely defined business problems into clean, robust architectures while anticipating edge cases.
• Rapid Delivery: Where appropriate, deliver products quickly to stakeholders to validate ideas, gather feedback, and accelerate iteration.
• Full Stack Delivery: Own features end to end across services, data, and user interfaces, making pragmatic technology choices while avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• AI Assisted Development: Use agentic AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to accelerate delivery while maintaining full accountability for code quality, correctness, and security.
• Feedback Loops for Coding Agents: Design quality gates, specification driven workflows, and deterministic checks that identify agent errors before they reach human review.
• Evaluate Emerging Technology: Continuously assess AI capabilities and engineering practices, adopting approaches that measurably improve delivery speed, software quality, and developer experience.
• Reliability & DevSecOps
• Security First Mindset: Embed security and compliance into every stage of the development lifecycle, proactively mitigating vulnerabilities through secure design.
• Production Standards: Build well tested, maintainable software. Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for an exceptional end user experience.
• Operational Readiness: Make production systems measurable, debuggable, and recoverable by building observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery mechanisms from the outset.
• Culture
• Customer Obsession: Start with customer and business needs, using technology as the means, not the end, to deliver value.
• High Performance: Maintain high standards, embrace continuous learning, and foster collaborative problem solving in an environment where talented individuals thrive alongside exceptional teammates.
• Ownership & Accountability: Take ownership of your work, exercise thoughtful judgment, and consistently follow through on commitments.
• Collaborative Autonomy: Operate with a high degree of trust and autonomy while working together to make decisions aligned with business, customer, and operational goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience: 7+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s - Engineering

Pay

The estimated base pay for this position is $122,400.00 to $183,600.00 per year. Starting pay will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, experience, qualifications, job-related and industry knowledge and skills and education/training.

Benefits

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Relocation

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable