Job Description
This Senior Software Engineer (Software Dev Engineer 5) is a back-end engineering lead role responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise services that support FamilySearch’s large-scale record search systems. These services are built in Java and run in Amazon AWS.
This team is involved heavily in Informational Retrieval and many aspects of Big Data processing. Responsibilities include designing and developing features that enhance the patron’s search experience and increase system scale/performance and improve system reliability.
Excellent leadership, mentoring, communication, engineering, and debugging skills will be critical for this engineer.
This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.
The Software Dev Engineer 5 is a master, professional full-stack role that requires vast knowledge of industry practices, and organizational policies. The role requires good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for designing, defining, developing, testing, purchasing, implementing, and analyzing technical products and systems of diverse scope. This position recommends system purchases for high value projects. This position fully participates as a technical leader and influences numerous engineering teams, and leads in areas such as software development, project planning activities, work break-down of tasks, engineering peer reviews, etc. This position is responsible for technical leadership in architecture, design, implementation, software quality, and on-going engineering support of the organization's technology applications.
This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.
- Contribute to team-wide development strategy
- Lead all development for a product vertical, as well as multiple horizontal initiatives, directing the work of other developers in product vertical Work with the technical lead in the establishment of architectures, standards, and best practices
- Seek out and understand users' needs and evangelize them when evaluating work
- As a member of a software engineering team, participate in team meetings, team planning sessions, setting team goals, and all other team activities
- Build and maintain relationships with other teams to promote collaboration
- Estimate the time to develop and deliver features as defined by product management
- Participate in peer reviews of project software design and coding
- Support requirements and design driven processes by partnering with User Experience Professionals.
- Develop source code and unit tests according to technical designs
- Develop global performance and maintainability improvements
- Be self-directed and provide classroom instruction in the areas of Church software development processes, industry best practices, and new technologies being adopted for the organization
- Provide formal training, mentoring, or pair programming with other less-experienced engineers
Required:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
Work Experience:
- 8+ years of industry recognized, progressive and relevant professional experience
- 3+ years of specialized experience in the technologies and methodologies of the product platform processes
- Prior experience in a software developer leadership role, leading a team (4+) through the first and subsequent releases of several (3+) successful products, at least one of which must be a large-scale enterprise application
Demonstrated Skills & Abilities:
- Concurrent Java programming experience
- Linux experience
- This job operates in a professional office environment
- To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree
- Experience with Cloud Computing (Amazon AWS)
- Experience with Search technologies (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr or other similar technologies).
- Experience with relational databases (Amazon RDS, Postgres)
- Experience with Spark, Amazon EMR or other MapReduce frameworks
- Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, SQS and SNS)
- Software development and test engineering experience on large projects.
- Development or automated testing of n-tier distributed Java applications (REST).
Work Location: Lehi, UT – open to remote work
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Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.