Staff Software Engineer - DArC (Minneapolis, MN)

Department: Core Cloud

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Reporting To: Charlie Grussing-Neitzel

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

SmartThings is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Device Architecture Cloud (DArC) team. The DArC team develops the core APIs used by all devices on our platform to control, react to, onboard, and list devices. If high volume systems critical to customer success excite you, then this opportunity is for you! The team is at the center of our IoT strategy which actively evolves to meet customer expectations, adopt new standards, new compliance and certification requirements, and continuous business growth. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects in a fast-paced, high visibility environment with a team of high performing engineers.

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: 

• Comfortable working in all phases of the software development lifecycle from planning to deployment and support.
• Implementing microservices surrounding devices, the device's last known state, and their events. 
• Expected to be attentive to devices, event volume and user requests (~250M /hr) as well as help implement corrective measures for scalability, reliability and performance.
• Abstracting the basic building blocks of a device into reusable pieces on the platform.
• Facilitating the many ways a device can be incorporated into a user account.
• Maintaining the communication between the device and the SmartThings platform.
• Project ownership, working with managers to scope and define assignments, and other project criteria.
• Drive key strategic outcomes like reliability, quality, and testability.
• Willingness to work across various time zones and geographies.
• Mentor other team members.

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.
• 8+ years of experience demonstrating proficiency in Java, Kotlin, object-oriented design, and/or C-based/inspired programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, C++, Rust, etc.
• Exposure to modern non-blocking/asynchronous server frameworks like Micronaut, Spring Boot, Node.js, Spring WebFlux, etc.
• Comfortable developing and understanding an existing codebase in order to implement new features.
• Experience with microservice architecture and service-to-service interconnectability.
• Experience with Linux systems.
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs.
• Experience operating production services in a cloud-based environment like AWS or GCP.
• Ability to lead projects that are not fully defined and influence direction as appropriate.
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, deadline driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• Strong communication and people skills. Comfortable presenting to both internal and external executive audiences.
• Generally identifies as a hard working, light hearted, growth mindset individual.

Desired Skills

• Experience with R