Senior Software Engineer - Client API Team

Senior Software Engineer - Client API Team (Minneapolis, MN) Department: Client Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Description We're SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, our corporate offices are based in Minneapolis and the Bay Area. More than 270 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung's leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances, and we offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem. As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use. Like the smartphone revolution, smart home technology is transforming the way we interact with the world around us. With SmartThings products, we're reducing global emissions, improving service industries, and creating a safer, smarter planet. Come be a part of the transformation with us! Do the SmartThings !

About The Team

The team works on building cloud-based APIs that are called by the SmartThings clients and act as a gateway to the rest of the SmartThings cloud platform. Some areas of recent focus for the team include Server-Driven UI and migrating client functionality into the cloud. Our microservices are mainly written in Kotlin, with some Groovy and Java, primarily using the Ratpack and Springboot frameworks. We use many of the latest AWS technologies and focus on quality and reliability. Our team manages problems with call volume, serving hundreds of millions of clients simultaneously and overcoming the associated challenges. Our engineers have an outsized opportunity to make an impact on end users at SmartThings, and our team is passionate about solving interesting problems.

Key Responsibilities This position is a hybrid role, based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Minneapolis, MN.
Design and implement cloud services that are highly available and fault tolerant, from API to storage.

Drive architecture definitions, planning, and implementation in a collaborative agile environment.

Lead projects that are not fully defined and influence direction as appropriate.

Collaborate with other cloud and mobile engineers from around the world to create simple and scalable solutions for new features and for improvements to existing functionality.

Follow through on scoped tasks, writing clean code and following best practices with excellent test automation coverage.

Proactively identify areas for improvement/strategy within team area, and clearly communicate action plans across teams and cultures

Improve quality and uptime for all of our applications.

Translate product feature ideas to production code.

Participate in peer code reviews and scrums.

Mentor other engineers and provide direction to more junior members of the team.

Work within established infrastructure and quickly become familiar with SmartThings' tools and systems.

Enhance supporting documentation and tools.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Inclusive Hiring Practices If your skills and experience are close to what we're looking for, we encourage you to apply. We know that abilities can be developed in many different ways, and some of the most educational paths have twists and turns. Diversity of thought creates the most creative teams, and we're passionate about adding new perspectives to the conversation at SmartThings. Even if you aren't certain you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply!

What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

5+ years of relevant experience in software development

Strong development skills in Java or another language on the JVM

Hands-on experience with at least one of the following cloud offerings: AWS, Azure and GCP

Experience with cloud services deployments, monitoring and production support

Experience with large scale infrastructure and distributed systems

Experience with Git or Github/Gitlab, Pull Requests and Rebasing

Ability to lead projects that are not fully defined and influence direction as appropriate

Ability work well in diverse, team-focused environments across multiple timezones

Excellent communication skills. Comfortable presenting content to audiences at varied levels.

Ability to operate in fast-paced, deadline driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment

A passion for continuous learning and understanding

Receptive to constructive criticism, constantly learning from feedback provided

Experience with linux systems

Desired Skills
Experience in designing and developing REST APIs

Experience with writing Kotlin or Groovy

Experience with Ratpack or other microservice web frameworks

SmartThings Benefits
We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.

All of our employees enjoy 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).

Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O'Reilly.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.

Compensation for this role for a candidate based in Minneapolis is expected to be between $108,743 and $157,677. Additionally, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus potential, depending on company and individual performance.
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