Software Engineer L4

Frontdoor, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

AHS American Home Shield Corp is seeking a Software Engineer to maintain and enhance Frontdoor’s Tradesmen, Vendors, and Video Experts portals and our growing non-warranty business. You will work on product-driven code across the stack, participate in testing, debugging, and performance optimization to scale our platform.

You will collaborate with a team to implement features, write documentation, and contribute to design decisions, while supporting production systems and CI/CD workflows in a

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms; ability to reason about complexity (Big-O).
• Experience with microservice architecture and REST API development.
• Ability to debug complex problems and read existing code in production.
• Experience with relational or NoSQL data stores.
• Familiarity with cloud and container technologies (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior engineers to understand design, approach, and implementation for new features or fixes.
• Develop and test new features, fix bugs, and ensure code quality with automated tests.
• Review unfamiliar code, identify issues, and improve overall system quality.
• Write documentation and unit tests for new code.
• Debug production issues and plan mitigation strategies.
• Optimize performance and scalability of existing implementations.
• Contribute ideas and collaborate to turn concepts into functional features.
• Design data structures and optimize for third-party integrations.

Skills

Kotlin

C#

Golang

.NET Core

Java

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Typescript

React

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Job description

Overview

Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset – their home. As the parent company of two leading brands, we bring over 50 years of experience in providing our members with comprehensive options to protect their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns through our extensive network of pre-qualified professional contractors. American Home Shield, the category leader in home service plans with approximately two million members, gives homeowners budget protection and convenience, covering up to 23 essential home systems and appliances. Frontdoor is a cutting edge, one-stop app for home repair and maintenance. Enabled by our Streem technology, the app empowers homeowners by connecting them in real time through video chat with pre-qualified experts to diagnose and solve their problems. The Frontdoor app also offers homeowners a range of other benefits including DIY tips, discounts and more. For more information about American Home Shield and Frontdoor, please visit frontdoorhome.com .

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a key member of our Contractor Experience digital team that is responsible for enhancing and maintaining the technical stack and portals for Frontdoor’s Tradesmen, Vendors, and Video Experts as well as our rapidly growing non-warranty business.

Our Software Engineers are product focused, giving them the opportunity to work on a product and understand the layers of the software stack. Work includes documentation, automated testing, debugging, working with algorithms and data structures, coding, design, system performance scaling, and problem solving for moderately technical and `software programs. Responsibilities also include participation in project deliverables, Keep the lights on related issues and working on tech debts.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with senior team members to understand the technical design, approach, and implementation necessary to deliver project and enhancements.
• Work and communicate across teams as required to deliver and test a new feature or fix an existing bug
• Implement functionality that meets the acceptance criteria, successfully passes automated test cases as defined in a test plan, and meets coding standards.
• 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.
• 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.
• Implement code based on common design patterns.
• Determine correct algorithms based on input size and frequency using basic concepts of algorithms and Big-O Notation.
• May include other duties as assigned

Qualifications

**Required Skills:**

• Basic understanding of computer science fundamentals, such as data structures, (trees, graphs, hash tables); Basic understanding of functioning and implementation of basic algorithms, such as sorts, searching, and the capability to explain performance characteristics using Big-O Notations
• Microservice based architecture, exposure to write REST APIs
• Capability to debug moderately complex problems and analyze logs in production systems and to read existing code
• Good understanding of various data storage options, such as relational, no-SQL, etc.
• Good skills in languages, such as Kotlin, C#, Golang, .net Core, Java
• Moderate skills in frontend development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript or Typescript, and modern frameworks such as React, React Native, React JS
• Ability to be on call on a rotating basis for the services owned by the team

**Preferred Skills:**

• 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 servicesUnderstanding of Elastic search, Log analysis
• Understanding of Logstash jobs

PhysicalRoleRequirements

Be seated at a computer intermittently for up toeight hours a day.Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects.Sitting forlong periodsof time while using office equipment such as computersandphones.Repetitive motionsusing hands and digits, such as movement of wrists, hands and fingers while picking, pinching, and typing during your normal working environment.

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field required, Master’s degree preferred

Minimum Experience required

(number of years necessary to perform role) :5+ yearsofproduct development experiencerequired

Other/State Specific

This role pays between $100k to $130k, and your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, responsibilities, experience, and location.

At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives. Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more.

Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.

Job Locations US

ID 2026-4142

Category Engineering

Type Full Time

Company AHS American Home Shield Corp