Staff Software Engineer (Java)

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Austin, TX
Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software
Sonar is committed to enabling developers and organizations to build better code for better software.
The Role
As a Staff Java Backend Developer at Sonar, you will develop new features for SonarQube and SonarCloud, ensuring high-quality code through unit and integration tests. You will lead application architecture on AWS, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with product managers and UX designers to enhance product functionality and quality.
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Why should I Apply:


At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help organizations build responsible, secure, high-quality code quickly and systematically. We build solutions that don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we fix problems at the source – source code, to be specific.


We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. We believe team members should have the opportunity to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: provide solutions that deliver Clean Code.


The impact you will have 


As a member of one of our engineering teams, you'll be a key player in making SonarQube and SonarCloud the best tools for Code Quality and Security, providing new features to deliver high quality and powerful products and services that help our users write better software. Our team specializes in delivering features for large customers on our enterprise plans.


You will have the opportunity to see your features come to life in Production with short iteration loops. While keeping our roadmap and business priorities in mind, you will be able to have a high impact on the software that we own and develop.


By joining us you will bring your experience and expertise to help push our product to its next stage of evolution and fulfill the needs of our large user and customer base.

On a daily basis, you will

  • Work with Product Managers and UX designers to specify new features and improve our products.
  • Develop those new features with the end user in mind, and write unit tests and integration tests for them.
  • Lead the definition of the architecture of our applications on AWS.
  • Have strong ownership of the team’s work and drive sprints to completion.
  • Deploy and monitor our new features in production.
  • Help solve production problems related to our team’s features.
  • Provide mentorship to engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
  • Work with agile methodologies.
  • Contribute to the definition of the team’s short and long-term goals.

Required Technical Skills

  • 6+ years of experience as a Java Software Engineer.
  • 1+ year of experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent level.
  • Developing in Java with clean and maintainable code, having design patterns and application’s architecture in mind.
  • Good knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization.
  • Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
  • Leadership: you’re able to take initiative and bring a subject to completion with little to no supervision. You have experience supporting and mentoring other team members.
  • Experience architecting cloud-native applications on AWS.
  • Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres) and SQLCode Quality practices (experience in using testing frameworks), constructive code reviews.
  • Tooling: Knowledge of build tools (Maven or Gradle); Experience with a version control system such as git

  • Nice to have:


  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
  • Experience with the design and implementation of REST web services APIs.

Required Soft Skills

  • Taking initiative and having the ability to lead a subject from beginning to end.
  • Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude.
  • Comfortable in dealing with change and complexity.
  • Self-confident enough to challenge the status quo as well as to give & receive feedback.

Why you will love it here:


Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness – and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). We believe that the best idea wins and everyone has a voice.

We believe that great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid-back while still being passionate leaders in our domains. Our 550+ SonarSourcers from 33 different nationalities can relate!

We embrace work-life balance. It is important to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This is why we have a flexible work policy that includes remote and in-office hybrid work (minimum three days a week in the office - Monday/Tuesday/Thursday).

We have a growth mindset. We love to learn and believe that continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are a must, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.



We prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:


At Sonar, we are a global workforce and recognize the value of different backgrounds, and global cultures.


We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.


All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the clear results of a comprehensive background check conducted prior to the start date.


Please note that applications submitted through agencies or third-party recruiters will not be considered.

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The Company
Austin, TX
597 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Software-driven digital innovation is essential for competing in today's market, and the foundation of this innovation is code. However, there are widespread cracks in this foundation – lines of bad, insecure, and poorly written code – that manifests into tech debt, security incidents, and availability issues. With Sonar, developers and organizations are empowered to create quality, secure code confidently, whether written by humans or generated with AI.

The Sonar solution, SonarQube, helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team or genAI—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software.

At Sonar, we are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do.

Rooted in the open-source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Annecy, France; Bochum, Germany, London, England; and Singapore. The company is rapidly growing with over 550 employees!

Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company, all while maintaining a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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