Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Acquia's Content Cloud Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer to implement modern, user-centric applications in a fast-paced software environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong knowledge of Java and SQL
• Experience writing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience with React, JavaScript, HTML5, Typescript and CSS
• Experience with Git
• Experience writing automated tests
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (i.e. Jenkins, Buildkite)
• Strong working knowledge of at least one cloud platform and its related technologies
• Experience in application analysis and design
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly and become productive in their use
• Working knowledge of software design principles and programming languages and frameworks in use
• Strong knowledge of software development security principles, concepts and best practices
• Strong knowledge of web application security concepts and practices
• Experience writing SaaS applications in a distributed microservice ecosystem

Responsibilities

• Contribute working code, documentation, and automated tests that deliver on Sprint goals
• Participate in experimentation and prototype building in a collaborative environment, iterating on concepts based on feedback
• Build connectors between APIs powered by different tech stacks
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams as needed to ensure the systems and architecture being built support roadmap, consistency, and platform R&D goals
• Contribute as needed to the core libraries used by all teams in the interest of the consistency, stability, robustness, cost effectiveness, and performance of consuming applications and services
• Encourage a culture of observability by ensuring logging and monitoring of applications and services is being configured appropriately to provide visibility into system performance consistent with SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and enable effective troubleshooting
• Address security vulnerabilities as needed
• Work with your team to understand and implement R&D Standards
• Review code as needed based on risk/scope and provide feedback and guidance to ensure it complies with our technical standards and security requirements
• Mentor and train other team members on important technical topics through team meetings, pair programming, lunch 'n learns, etc. as needed
• Collaborate with the architecture team to ensure the platform we are building is consistent with the overarching architectural goals at Acquia
• Ensure software systems comply with service SLO/SLI expectations
• Offer on-call assistance and support as needed to ensure smooth operations and address any challenges that may arise