Senior Software Engineer, API Team

Department: Interfaces

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 350 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.  We also offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem (think IKEA, SONOS, Honeywell, and so many more). 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.  Come be a part of the leading edge of IoT innovation!

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. 

In this role, your primary responsibilities will include the following: 

• 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 & Expertise

Inclusive Hiring Practices

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At SmartThings, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
 

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 ski