Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their homes. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will work on product-focused tasks including documentation, automated testing, debugging, and coding while contributing to the development of new ideas and principles.
Responsibilities
- Write documentation and automated tests for code to be written
- Implement functionality for automated tests that will successfully pass and meet coding standards
- Debug production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans
- Optimize performance of existing implementations
- Look at non-familiar code and identify issues, while improving overall quality of system, and helping team members with debugging issues
- Build the right data structures, add indices to fix performance issues, and determine data structures that perform best with respect to third party integrations
- As a component owner, where the component impacts across multiple platforms (1-5 member team), refactor critical components of code, write easily extendable code, convert abstract engineering goals into actionable items and deliver it, code complex problems, dispatch algorithms, and make improvements to automation infrastructure
- Identify platform quirks and hidden methods that can slow down or boost performance. Provide quick fixes to performance issues
- Work with team to establish benchmark around the work done in App or in Backend. Determine where the bottlenecks are and how to implement better solutions
- Prioritize tasks with Scrummaster that leads the team to be successful
- Bring forward ideas to experiment and work in teams to transform ideas to reality
- May include other duties as assigned
Skills
- Advanced understanding of computer science fundamentals, such as data structures, (trees, graphs, hash tables); understanding of functioning and implementation of basic algorithms, such as sorts, searching, and the capability to explain performance characteristics using Big-O Notations
- Capability to debug moderately complex problems and analyze logs in production systems and to read existing code
- Deep understanding of various data storage options, such as relational, no-SQL, etc
- Excellent scripting skill in Shell, Python, or Ruby
- Excellent skills in languages, such as C, C++, Java, Golang, .net Core
- Experience in defining process with clear objectives and ways to measure the effectiveness of the process
- Ability to be on call on a rotating basis for the services owned by the team
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field required
- 7+ years product development experience required
- Strong leadership skills with capability to lead a team of engineers
- Experience in developing products in an Agile development environment
- Experience working in a CI/CD environment
- Understanding of Git and development activities such as merge and conflict resolution of code
- Understanding and experience in Docker, Kubernets, and AWS cloud services
Benefits
- Insurance for medical/pharmacy
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Disability
- Weight loss and smoking cessation programs
- Matching 401(k)
- Ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.
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