Senior Software Development Engineer, Ring Device Services

Amazon; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their Cloud Development Team. This role focuses on designing and delivering large-scale cloud services for home security systems, supporting millions of customers globally. Responsibilities include designing systems, leading projects, mentoring engineers, and delivering software. The ideal candidate will have experience in leading teams, software development, and proficiency in languages like Java and C++. This position values technical excellence and a customer-focused approach.

Servicios

Equal opportunity employer

Inclusive culture

Workplace accommodation support

Formación

• Experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.

Responsabilidades

• Design and document distributed systems and microservices.
• Implement robust and maintainable code with clear documentation.
• Serve as a technical lead and own projects end-to-end.
• Communicate status and changes to stakeholders.
• Design test automation for all code implemented.

Conocimientos

Mentoring

Technical Leadership

Java

C++

C#

Educación

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Ring is looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Cloud Development Team, working on Ring home security systems. This role involves designing and delivering large-scale cloud services used by millions of Ring customers worldwide, with opportunities to collaborate with world-class engineers to build cloud systems supporting Ring devices. The role covers design, architecture, development, and operations of cloud systems, including device setup, transfer, and linking features, and involves mentoring other engineers on complex projects. The position emphasizes technical excellence, customer focus, and a long-term technical vision.

Key responsibilities

• Design and document distributed systems and microservices
• Implement robust and maintainable code with clear and maintained documentation
• Deliver customer value in iterative fashion while working towards longer-term systems to solve roadmap goals with increasing efficiency
• Solve challenging problems and perform root-cause analysis
• Serve as a technical lead and own projects end-to-end
• Communicate status and changes to the work they are responsible and accountable for, keeping all stakeholders informed of changes and updates to the original plan
• Serve as a technical mentor for other engineers on the team
• Design test automation on all code implemented through unit testing and integration testing
• Work with internal and external teams to bring Ring technology to market
• Maintain and enhance software frameworks for development

A day in the life

A day in life varies which makes work at Ring challenging and exciting — one day you would design new features, on another you might dive deep into production metrics and analyse customers' experience, and then you can work on a technical proof-of-concept for a new solution being designed.

About the team

You will join a newly formed Europe based team which is a really rare opportunity for you to be there from its early times and impact its shape!

With your peers you will work on distributed cloud systems (predominantly in Java and Go), as well as undertaking feasibility studies to design cloud software solutions. You will drive key aspects of product definition, execution, tests, as well own deployment, operation and scaling of our always-on distributed systems that serve Ring customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Bachelore;s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in development in the last 3 years
• Experience leading and influencing your team or organization
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Benefits / Equal opportunity

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