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

We’re looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer interested in enhancing the Samsung Ecommerce platform to add marketplace capabilities catering to B2C and B2B channels that power our existing and future businesses.  As a Senior Engineer, you will work cross-functionally with the product team, design solutions, contribute to the primary development work for our backend services, create the scalable high-performant design, identify opportunities for optimizations, enhance partner integrations, and manage security and feature upgrades.  You will help architect solutions to problems, be hands-on, and lead the development.

• Drive the development and implementation of microservices using Node.JS, Golang
• Document the technical design and approach for the features developed by you and the team
• Implement, review, and test the services consistent with business and customer requirements
• Expand the feature set of the platform in an extensible and scalable manner
• Own individual modules and act as the technical SME for them
• Get challenged on your DS & Algorithm skills and Design patterns every day
• Teach and groom junior developers and help them produce great code
• Make and deliver recommendations for functionality and architecture that will keep the eCommerce platform maintainable and enable stable, rapid deployments

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors / Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in software development
• Proficient in building backend services with JavaScript frameworks
• Hands-on experience working with cloud tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Event Queues
• Proven experience implementing scalable services with relational and NoSQL databases
• Highly Proficient in technologies like:
  • Node.js
  • SQL/NoSQL
  • AWS
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch & operations
• Experience in communicating with other business teams and translating product requirements to technical plans with solutions and alternate options
• Ability to come up with a high-level design based on the requirements, document and explain to junior members of the team
• Excellent written communication skills to produce documents & coach remote teams

Skills and Qualifications

Life @ Samsung - https://www.samsung.com/us/careers/life-at-samsung/

Benefits @ Samsung - https://www.samsung.com/us/careers/benefits/

The salary range for this role, for candidates based in California, is expected to be between $212,500 and $246,000.  Actual pay will be determined by considering relevant skills and experience and comparing them to other employees in the role.

Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 6 months), Paid Time Off, Student Loan Program (after 6 months), Wellness Incentives, and many more.  In addition, regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) are eligible for MBO bonus