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

If you have ambitions to be a part of a Best in Class organization, Samsung’s eCommerce engineering team is the place to be. If you were to join, you’ll have the opportunity to build out our eCommerce platform. We are responsible for the whole stack from infrastructure to support the platform at a global scale, to core eCommerce micro services, and web and mobile experiences. The eCommerce engineering team has technically challenging work in a fast paced work environment. The dynamic culture at Samsung offers both great challenge and great reward. If you want to work among the very best talent in the industry, working on the most innovative products in the world, Samsung is the place to be.

We’re looking for talented a Staff Software Engineer who is interested in building our B2C and B2B eCommerce web applications that powers our existing and future businesses.  As a Staff Software DevelopmEngineer, you will work cross functionally with the product team, design solutions, contribute to the primary development work for our web apps, creating reusable modules, identify opportunities for optimizations, enhancing extensions, improving site performance, and managing security and feature upgrades.  You will help architect solutions to problems, and lead the development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive the development and implementation on B2B and B2C web applications and micro services using React.JS, Next.JS and Node.JS.
• Work with other developers and designers to build applications consistent with product roadmaps and customer requirements
• Develop and test reusable micro frontend services, SPAs, libraries, and extensions
• Review and troubleshoot integration issues
• Have a good understanding of the eCommerce platform micro services and ability to come up with solutions spanning across micro services.
• Manage interactions with internal and external partner teams including alignment with Global teams.
• Coach and groom junior developers and help them to produce great code
• Continuously collaborate, share and build best practices with teams
• Become SME on one or more services in our organization
• Setting up monitoring dashboards, alerts and technical operations for microservices
• 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
• Optimize website loading time and performance
• Make and deliver on recommendations for functionality and architecture that will keep our platform maintainable and enable stable, rapid deployment

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors / Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 10 years professional experience in software development
• Proficient in web development (Backend/Frontend/Both) and JavaScript frameworks
• Familiarity with web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, RESTful APIs, and JSON
• Proven experience connecting front-end clients with back-end services and databases
• Highly Proficient in technologies like:
  • React.js
  • Node.js
  • SQL/NoSQL
  • Caching frameworks
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch & operations
• Experience in communicating with other business teams and translate the product requirements to technical plan with solutions
• Ability to come up with the high-level design based on the requirements, document and explain to junior members of the team

Skills and Qualifications