Sr Software Engineer

Department: Core Cloud

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Reporting To: Josh Klun

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. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung with corporate offices in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.

More than 430 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!

The Events team is responsible for developing and operating the SmartThings Cloud Event Pipeline – the nervous system of Samsung’s global IoT platform. Whenever one of millions of SmartThings devices – from light bulbs to smoke alarms to refrigerators – generates an event, the Event Pipeline is responsible for delivering it to mobile devices, internal systems and external integrations. That means globally processing hundreds of thousands of events, every second of every day.

In order to support our growing user base and provide exciting new functionality, the Events team is building new microservices, based on high-performance, scalable technologies. With platform growth from Samsung products like Galaxy Smartphones, Neo QLED TVs, and Bespoke appliances, in addition to the revolutionary Matter project, the Events team needs to add a highly skilled software engineer with experience in building scalable cloud services.

If you want to learn more about the work you’ll be doing with us, take a look at the SmartThings API for Subscriptions and Schedules.

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: 

• Drive the execution and delivery of critical features within the Events team
• Implement solutions to complicated globally distributed problems at massive scale
• Participate in total ownership of the Event Pipeline, from design and development to testing and operational support
• Provide highly reliable services with zero-down time
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.
• Contribute to technical design documents and architectural discussions for the Events team.

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) 

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Professional history developing services with Java and the JVM Ecosystem. Experience with other JVM languages, especially Kotlin, is a plus.
• Strong experience designing and implementing scalable, well-structured REST APIs
• Background building cloud-native services to operate on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience designing and implementing event driven architectures with data streaming systems like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis (Kafka is preferred)
• Data design and efficient access with SQL (e.g. MySQL or PostGreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB or Cassandra)  database systems
• Experience writing automated tests leveraging frameworks such as JUnit, Spock or Kotest
• Effective collaboration through Git version control
• Demonstrated experience delivering systems end-to-end from design through production launch, monitoring, and iteration
• Ability to collaborate with peer teams, quality assurance and product management to build the best solution for