Staff Software Engineer - SADA
Austin, TX
About the Job
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer
Location: U.S. - Remote
Your Mission
You will build cloud-native applications across a breadth of use cases in order to enable end users to work more effectively. We develop our applications utilizing a UX-driven approach in order to solve priority business objectives, focusing on efficiency, performance, and ease-of-use.
As a member of the Application Development team in the staff position, you will be responsible for architecting and developing solutions across multiple stacks, including: APIs for web and mobile, edge computing applications, orchestration for deployments/pipelines, possibly working with responsive web applications for a variety of device types, pixel-perfect UI based on designs. We are a premier partner of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and as such our implementations focus on enabling customers to better utilize GCP and to demonstrate its capabilities
Because SADA is a services-focused company, you will have the opportunity to support customers spanning every industry--including gaming, logistics, and hospitality--each with different use cases and objectives. You will obtain a breadth of skills and experience unparalleled at other companies.
Responsibilities:
- Work on projects with applications in various stages of development, ranging from discovery and architecture processes, soup-to-nuts development of an application, or consulting on individual features for our customers
- Communicate with internal and customer engineers to gain consensus on API specifications and architectures
- Collaborate with solution architects, product managers, and UX/UI designers to define the requirements for high-quality user experiences
- Develop repeatable processes, solutions, and products that enable SADA and its customers to work more efficiently
Pathway to Success
#MakeThemRave is at the foundation of every project we take on. Our singular goal is to provide customers the best possible experience in building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in Google Cloud Platform.
Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of our practice with vision and passion. You will be measured by: the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions; your ability to estimate accurately; the feedback provided by customers; your collaboration with your peers; and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.
As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a professional development plan to support your growth across engineering, management, or other growth tracks.
Expectations
Required Travel - Limited (<5%) travel to customer sites, conferences, or team-building events.
Customer-Facing - As often as daily interaction with customers, including standups or sales meetings; at other times, weekly/bi-weekly as for sprint planning, reviews/retrospectives, or demos. These interactions will be with roles ranging from engineers to key executive stakeholders.
Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.
Job Requirements
Required Credentials:
- 10 years of relevant work experience in software development
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong capabilities in the design, development, and implementation of Java applications using the Spring Boot framework.
- Additional expertise in development with two or more of the following languages: Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby.
- Ability to architect, scope, and prioritize work based on feedback from the customer and internal teams.
- Prior experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, developer-friendly REST APIs.
- Exposure to full stack development, from setting up application and database server infrastructure to developing and implementing application code.
- Highly capable when working with customers in a consultative capacity, including convincing them to utilize more optimal technologies and processes.
- Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in writing automated tests, including unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
- Familiarity with frontend web technologies, particularly React and Angular.
Useful Qualifications:
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
- Fluency with modern frontend web development leveraging TypeScript
- Experience using Google Cloud Platform, in particular serverless (Cloud Functions), containers (Cloud Run, Kubernetes), and platforms (App Engine)
- Experience developing event stream processing applications, in particular using Kafka backed by Scylladb, DynamoDB, or other NoSQL databases.
- Exposure to the Google Maps API, PostGIS, GDAL, or other Geospatial display and analytics APIs/frameworks
- Familiarity with mobile client development and toolset; e.g.: Android Studio, Kotlin, Swift, etc.
About SADA An Insight company
Values: SADA stands for inclusion, fairness, and doing the right thing. From our very beginning, we've championed a diverse workplace where we support and learn from each other, amplifying the impact we make with our customers. We're proud that our teams are composed of contributors who represent a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our five core values are the foundation of everything we do:
- Make Them Rave
- Be Data Driven
- Think One Step Ahead
- Drive Purposeful Impact
- Do The Right Thing
Work with the Best: SADA has been the largest Google Cloud partner in North America since 2016 and, for the seventh year in a row, has been named a Google Global Partner of the Year . This year, SADA was named a Google Cloud Global Partner of the year 2024. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group and Inc. Magazine, and was recognized as a Niche Player in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services.
Benefits: Unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, generous medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K/RRSP with match, as well as Google-certified training programs and a professional development stipend.
Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for the last 10+ years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers list for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core:3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads, and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.
To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact careers@sada.com. SADA complies with federal and state/provincial disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities.