Senior Software Engineer - API Team (Minneapolis, MN)
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Location: Minneapolis, MN 55407
Description:
Senior Software Engineer - API Team (Minneapolis, MN)
Department: Core IoT Platform
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Reporting To: Spencer Hartberg
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 at the edge of the SmartThings Platform in addition to focusing on platform wide features to make all APIs at SmartThings more reliable and efficient. Some areas of recent focus for the team include centralizing our strategies around rate limiting, quotas, and other resiliency patterns across the platform as well as managing microservices used for the SmartThings Public and Enterprise APIs. Our microservices are mainly written in Java and Kotlin, primarily using the Ratpack and Springboot frameworks. We use many of the latest AWS technologies and have a strong focus on ownership, 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.
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)
Desired Skills
SmartThings Benefits
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.
Department: Core IoT Platform
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Reporting To: Spencer Hartberg
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 at the edge of the SmartThings Platform in addition to focusing on platform wide features to make all APIs at SmartThings more reliable and efficient. Some areas of recent focus for the team include centralizing our strategies around rate limiting, quotas, and other resiliency patterns across the platform as well as managing microservices used for the SmartThings Public and Enterprise APIs. Our microservices are mainly written in Java and Kotlin, primarily using the Ratpack and Springboot frameworks. We use many of the latest AWS technologies and have a strong focus on ownership, 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.
- Designing. implementing, testing, and monitoring 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
- Be part of the team on call rotation for our services.
- 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 Java or Kotlin
- Experience with Springboot, Ratpack or other Java 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.