(USA) Senior, Software Engineer

Socket.dev; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Herndon, VA team. You will craft scalable frontend solutions using TypeScript/React, collaborate with product and backend teams, and drive high-quality delivery through testing and CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes building robust UI components, mentoring junior developers, and contributing to architecture discussions, all within an innovative, product-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years in software engineering or related field required.
• Strong experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend frameworks.
• Proven ability to design scalable front-end architectures and components.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and translate them into user stories and design artifacts.
• Collaborate with product, backend, and design teams to plan projects and provide feedback.
• Develop and maintain frontend components using React/TypeScript in a scalable way.
• Write unit and E2E tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and telemetry, while supporting production stability.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

ReactJS

Redux

Frontend architecture

Mentoring juniors

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Bamboo

Selenium

Jest

Git

Cypress

Job description

What you'll do...

Position:Senior Software Engineer

Job Location:2245 Monroe St., Herndon, VA 20171

Duties:Performs requirement and scoping analysis by exploring relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire that can address business/technical needs; assessing gaps, updates, or modifications between customer/business expectations and existing products/solutions (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration); classifying the requirements into applicable types (for example - Functional/Non-Functional, Derived/Imposed/Emergent etc.); anticipating solution risks/issues during the requirements gathering phase; informing relevant stakeholders; and recommending corrective steps. Contributes to the creation of user stories for component/application/complex (for agilemethodology) byleveragingknowledge of traceability matrix, risk analysis methodologies, cost analysis, businessobjectives, and classification of requirements. Assists in solution design by ensuring processes/applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product; evaluating trade-offs while designing a component based on business requirements; and assisting in the conversion of High-Level Design (HLD) to detailed design using mock screens, pseudocode, and detailed functional logic. Applies knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, MVP, non-functional requirements, and telemetry. Creates/configures minimalistic code for entire components/applications by selecting appropriate coding languages (for example, JavaScript, Python, C#), frameworks (for example, ActiveX,.Net, Cocoa, Android application framework), tools (for example, Monday.com, Linx,Embold), and platforms (for example, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Apple iOS); ensuring business/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability, and high-scalability needs are met; building scripts for automation in CI/CD, testing, or other processes (as applicable); implementing telemetry features; and applying security policy requirements during code development/configuration.Identifiesand creates test cases for components/modules by mapping customer requirements to testobjectives; executing test cases to detect errors and defects; performingdifferent typesof testing usingappropriate tools(for example, Selenium, Jira, Eggplant); and conducting root cause analysis.Applies knowledge of test case preparation, test strategy, test tools, and test environment.Tracks and analyzes defects for components/modules by following the defect life-cycle process; using defect tracking tools and methodologies; performing regression testing; conducting root cause and corrective action analysis; and troubleshooting performance and availability bottlenecks to avoid recurrence of similar defects.

Minimum education and experiencerequired:Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required:Must have experience with: coding in TypeScript or JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as ReactJS, Redux, Angular, Backbone.js, and jQuery along with supplementary technologies such as HTML, CSS, Git, Sass, Stylus, Webpack and JIRA; Native Mobile Development (Android and iOS) using React Native and JSS; architecture front-end application solutions; creating JavaScript and React Native libraries when open source solutions do not exist to make the team's workflow easier; leading and training junior developers and contractors; working with product managers, backend teams, and inventory management systems to plan upcoming projects and provide feedback; providing L1 support to applications developed by the team; writing and maintaining unit and E2E test coverage for code quality using JavaScript testing frameworks and libraries such as Selenium, Jest, Jasmine, React Testing Library, Enzyme and Mocha; working with third-party analytics teams to implement analytics tools into the frontend to collect analytics, and improve user experience based on data; and building, maintaining or resolving issues in CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Docker, Jenkins, and Bamboo.Employerwill accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Rate of pay:$158,688.00 to 216,000.00/year

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.