Senior Back End Software Engineer
About Us:
LogicMonitor is the leading SaaS based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT.
We love going to work and think you should too. We hold our company culture near and dear – it represents an intermix between passion for leadership and passion for an active, healthy life centered around family and friends. LogicMonitor represents community, collaboration and camaraderie.
Located in the 500 West 2nd Street tower, our brand-new Austin office is best-in-class! Be inspired with panoramic downtown & Lady Bird Lake views, where snacks are plentiful and team outings are common. Our offices are sprinkled around the globe, too, with a presence in Santa Barbara, Boston, New York City, London, Singapore, and Chengdu, China.
What You'll Do:
The Senior Backend Software Engineer on the Development team is responsible for the implementation, design, architecture and quality control of business integrations/general development within the customer-facing product application and internal tools used by development and technical operations. This includes troubleshooting bugs and implementing new features as required in existing backend applications; even building new components as needed. A successful Sr. Software Engineer will produce all required functionality in a timely manner and will communicate and work with colleagues to solve problems and improve the systems they work with. Furthermore, they should have a deep understanding and knowledge level of the systems they are working with, to the point that they can help others on the team grow and develop.
Here's a closer look at this key role:
- Working with various teams in LogicMonitor to deliver software products that support LogicMonitor's business growth.
- Envision system features and functionalities by analyzing business requirements.
- Prioritize and plan for deliverables in an iterative development strategy.
- Design, document, code, and test technical solution for new systems or enhancements to existing systems.
- Follow agile software development methodologies for implementation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve product/application issues for escalated support cases.
- Collaborate with a diverse, distributed development organization
- Contribute to Tech Talks, involving research on new technologies that are applicable to this position.
- Ability to tackle performance and design issues at a deep technical level.
- Coach and lead other team members from a technical perspective in design and implementation.
- Understanding and improvement of development process and application deployment
What You'll Need:
- BS or above degree in computer science or related field.
- 12+ years of software development experience in commercial or enterprise application.
- 8+ years of full-time experience as a Java developer on Linux platform.
- Familiar with latest Java development framework and open-source tools.
- Strong understanding of web application architectures. Experience in SaaS Product Development dealing with large volumes of data.
- Familiar with Linux file systems
- Familiar with AWS services
- Deep SQL / NoSQL database knowledge (MySQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, etc.)
- Deep understanding of container technology (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Familiar with Test frameworks (JUnit, WireMock, Selenium, etc.)
- Excellent in communication (written and verbal) and collaboration with other functional teams (Support Engineering, Tools, Product, etc.).
- Ability to juggle priorities and work under pressure to deliver against client deadlines
- An expert, or able to quickly develop competencies, in numerous technologies
- Capable of thoughtful analysis of the costs and benefits of the work being done, with an eye towards maximizing customer utility
- Enjoys solving problems (so fun!)
- Inclined to see problems from the point of view of the customer and of our customer base as a whole
- Ability to work with a development team and develop strong, reliable, and effective relationships with team members