Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Backend (Minneapolis, MN)

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Backend (Minneapolis, MN)

Department: Partner Infrastructure & Intelligence

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Reporting To: Namrata Garach

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!

SmartThings Culture & Ways of Working

SmartThings’ dynamic culture continuously moves forward with agility and determination, providing an opportunity for impactful contributions across all roles. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is deeply ingrained in our core values, fostering a culture that values, celebrates, and honors the unique perspectives and experiences of every individual. Embracing inclusive practices, we strive to cultivate a work environment where everyone thrives.

At SmartThings, we’re creating immersive, interconnected experiences for both our customers and our team members. Our workplace mirrors this ethos, offering a versatile hybrid environment that nurtures personal connections and fosters collaborative efforts. It’s a place where we can harness the power of teamwork and also delve into focused solo work from the comfort of home a couple of days a week. Joining our team means being based in the Bay Area and working with us at our Mountain View office three days a week, adding your unique touch to our collective journey.

About The Team
The team works on integrating IoT devices into the SmartThings platform. With the exponential growth of IoT devices over the past few years, we are building a dynamic platform to support these directly connected MQTT devices and Audio/Video devices and make it easier for these devices to work with the SmartThings platform. We primarily use Scala and a mix of the latest AWS service offering including EC2 and Kubernetes.

About The Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the SmartThings cloud platform. You’ll work on a platform that processes billions of events each day, have full end-to-end ownership of code and infrastructure and work with the latest technology at scale in a fun team environment.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement cloud services that are highly available and fault-tolerant, from API to storage.
• Improve quality and uptime for all of our applications.
• Translate product feature ideas to production code.
• Collaborate with other developers, internal and external partners, to create new features and improve existing functionalities.
• Ability to lead projects that are not fully defined and influence direction as appropriate.
• Proactively identify areas for improvements.
• Drive strategy within the team area, and clearly communicate action plans across teams.
• Mentor other engineers and lead technical onboarding.
• Ability to work within established infrastructure and quickly become familiar.

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
• 4 or more years of experience in a software role
• Strong development skills (Either Java or another language on the JVM, Node or Golang)
• 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
• Understand the difference between prototype code and production ready code
• Experience with linux systems, designing and developing REST APIs and with Git
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability work well in a diverse, team-focused environments
• Excellent communication skills

Desired Skills
• Experience building services in Kotlin
• Experience with Kubernetes, EC2 managed delivery
• Experience with large scale Infrastructure and distributed systems, at least 2 years supporting consumer-facing production-level cloud services
• Experience with Audio Video streaming technologies
• Experience with Scala would be a huge plus

SmartThings Benefits
Why You’ll Love Working at SmartThings
• 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 Mountain View is expected to be between $108,743 and $157,677.