Sr Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

This position is a hybrid role, based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Minneapolis, MN. In this role, your primary responsibilities will include the following:

• Drive the execution and delivery of critical features within the Events team
• Implement solutions to complicated globally distributed problems at massive scale
• Participate in total ownership of the Event Pipeline, from design and development to testing and operational support
• Provide highly reliable services with zero-down time
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
• Contribute to technical design documents and architectural discussions for the Events team.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related
• 5+ years of related experience
• Professional history developing services with Java and the JVM Ecosystem
• Experience with other JVM languages, especially Kotlin, is a plus
• Strong experience designing and implementing scalable, well-structured REST APIs
• Background building cloud-native services to operate on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience designing and implementing event driven architectures with data streaming systems like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis (Kafka is preferred)
• Data design and efficient access with SQL (e.g. MySQL or PostGreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB or Cassandra) database systems
• Experience writing automated tests leveraging frameworks such as JUnit, Spock or Kotest
• Effective collaboration through Git version control
• Demonstrated experience delivering systems end-to-end from design through production launch, monitoring, and iteration
• Able to collaborate with peer teams, quality assurance and product management to build the best solution for our customers

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with frameworks like Micronaut, Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, especially focused on asynchronous and reactive patterns
• Familiarity with processes and tools that enable Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Knowledge of distributed cache solutions (e.g. Redis, Valkey, Memcached)
• Experience with our common tools such as Jira, Confluence, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Datadog, SumoLogic, JetBrains IntelliJ
• Familiarity with SmartThings common tools

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health
• HSA with employer contribution
• Life & disability insurance
• FSAs for health and dependent care expenses
• A competitive 401k with a 5% employer match
• Unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave)
• Education reimbursement program
• Access to learning resources through O'Reilly
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
• Parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost
• EV chargers onsite
• In-office catered lunches on Thursdays
• Onsite gym

Pay

Base compensation range for this position is $117,000 to $158,000 annually. Actual base within this range will depend on many factors including experience, skills, technical expertise and market alignment. In addition, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance.