Sr Software Engineer

About SmartThings

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!

About the Role

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.

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 our customers

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with frameworks like Micronaut, Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, especially focused on asynchronous and reactive patterns
• Familiarity with processes and tools that enable Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Knowledge of distributed cache solutions (e.g. Redis, Valkey, Memcached)
• Experience with our common tools such as Jira, Confluence, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Datadog, SumoLogic, JetBrains IntelliJ

SmartThings Benefits

• We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.
• All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave).
• Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O’Reilly.
• Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.
• We offer a parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost. EV chargers are also onsite.
• In-office catered lunches on Thursdays.
• Access to the onsite gym.

Compensation

Base compensation range for this position is $117,000 to $158,000 annually. Actual base within this range will depend on many factors including experience, skills, technical expertise and market alignment. In addition, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance.

Accessibility

At SmartThings, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process or to perform the requirements of the job, we will work with you to meet your needs in compliance with applicable laws. Please reach out to talent@smartthings.com and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will connect with you further!