Sr. Software Engineer

Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset – their home. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance and maintain the technical stack and portals for their rapidly growing non-warranty business.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with team members to understand, define, and refine the technical design, approach, and implementation necessary to deliver project enhancements
• Collaborate with other senior engineering members to ensure our systems work together cohesively
• As a component owner for systems spanning multiple platforms, refactor critical code, design extensible solutions, translate abstract engineering goals into actionable deliverables, and implement complex features
• Implement functionality that meets the acceptance criteria, successfully passes automated test cases as defined in a test plan, and meets coding standards
• Work with team to establish benchmarks around the work done in Web App or in Backend
• Determine where the bottlenecks are and how to implement better solutions
• Look at non-familiar code and identify issues, while improving overall quality of system, and helping team members with debugging issues
• Write documentation and unit tests for code to be written
• Debug and resolve production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans
• Optimize performance and improve scalability of existing implementations
• 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
• Build the right data structures, add indices to fix performance issues, and determine data structures that perform best with respect to third party integrations
• May include other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 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
• Excellent skills in frontend development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript or Typescript, and modern frameworks such as React
• 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, Kubernetes, and AWS cloud services