Senior Software Engineer (Java)
SonarSourceAbout the role
Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.
Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.
We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:
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SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.
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SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.
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SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.
Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:
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Committed to our customers and community.
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Obsessed with quality.
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Deliberate in our decisions.
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Effective as one team.
With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.
What you will do
- Work with Product Managers and UX designers to specify new features and improve our products.
- Develop those new features with the end user in mind, and write unit tests and integration tests for them.
- Lead the definition of the architecture of our applications on AWS.
- Have strong ownership of the team’s work and drive sprints to completion.
- Deploy and monitor our new features in production.
- Help solve production problems related to our team’s features.
- Provide mentorship to engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
- Work with agile methodologies.
- Contribute to the definition of the team’s short and long-term goals.
Experience and qualifications
- 6+ years of experience as a Java Software Engineer.
- Developing in Java with clean and maintainable code, having design patterns and the application’s architecture in mind.
- Experience architecting cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Good knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization.
- Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Leadership: you’re able to take initiative and bring a subject to completion with little to no supervision. You have experience supporting and mentoring other team members.
- Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres) and SQL.
- Code Quality practices (experience in using testing frameworks), constructive code reviews.
- Tooling: Knowledge of build tools (Maven or Gradle); Experience with a version control system such as git
Additional comments
We value diversity, equity, a
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