Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Position Summary

Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA) is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances and enterprise solutions. The company pushes beyond the limits of today’s technology to provide groundbreaking connected experiences across its large portfolio of products and services, including mobile devices, home appliances, home entertainment, 5G networks and digital displays. As an eleven-time winner of EPA’s ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence, SEA is dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment through its eco-conscious products, practices and operations.

People | Excellence | Change | Integrity | Co-prosperity

Role and Responsibilities

We’re looking for talented Senior Staff Software Development Engineer who is interested in building our eCommerce platform that provides for our existing and future businesses.  As an Engineering Director, you will work cross functionally with the product, data analysis, reporting, and other internal and external partner teams.  You will help architect solutions to problems and lead the development effort.

Our team is responsible for the full stack from infrastructure to supporting of the platform at a global scale.  We develop core eCommerce microservices, and web and mobile experiences. The eCommerce Engineering team provides technically challenging work in a fast-paced work environment.

Role and Responsibilities:

• An expert knowledge of Software Engineering best practices, Software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Lead and expand the feature set of the platform in an extensible and scalable manner.
• Develop end to end on microservices built on cutting edge technologies including Node.JS, Postgres DB, Message Queues etc.,
• Work with great Engineers and solve difficult problems aimed at making the Customer experience seamless.
• Work with Product managers on standardizing requirements considering future use cases
• Manage interactions with internal and external partner teams including alignment with Global teams.
• Mentor and groom Junior Software Engineers and help them to produce great code.
• Share technical knowledge and build best practices across teams.
• Be SME on one or more technologies in our organization
• Be a role model for the team and set really high standards with regard to Design, development and test.
• Setting up monitoring dashboards, alerts and other technical operations related items for the microservices you own.
• Figure out challenges with development throughput and advocates ways to solve it.
• Setting up relevant SLAs with operations and delivering on them.
• Lead the team in providing support for issues found in production, and to come up with short term and long-term solutions

You will be expected to have:

• An expert knowledge of Software Engineering best practices, Software Development Life Cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project as a team.
• Experience in communicating with other technical teams including the Test and Product organizations to collect requirements, review test cases and translate the product requirements to technical requirements.
• Ability to come up with the high-level design based on the requirements, document it and explain it to the junior members of the team.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelors / Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field in a reputed institution
• Minimum 12 years professional experience in software development
• Proficient in Backend Software development
• Experience building eCommerce Fulfillment solutions
• Proficient in technologies like:
  • Node.js and frameworks like Express or Hapi
  • SQL like Postgres
  • NoSQL like CockroachDB, Cassandra
  • Message queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • Caching frameworks like Redis
  • AWS Cloud services
• Experience in mentoring and leading teams
• Strong analytical and programming skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
• Good understanding of Object-oriented programming concepts
• Good understanding of web technologies
• Quick learner with passion to learn and adapt to new technologi