Senior Software Engineer, Apps & Behaviors

SmartThings•Minneapolis, MN

4h•$117,000 - $158,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung with corporate offices in Minneapolis and the Bay Area. More than 430 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances. We also offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem (think IKEA, SONOS, Honeywell, and so many more). As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use. Come be a part of the leading edge of IoT innovation! As a Senior Software Engineer on the Apps & Behaviors Services team, you'll take ownership of complex features and technical challenges within the platform powering SmartApps and Rules & Automations across the SmartThings ecosystem. You'll act as a technical lead — decomposing ambiguous problems, driving solutions from design through delivery, and identifying gaps where the platform can be made more scalable and reliable. Alongside your own contributions, you'll mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team. This role is hybrid, 3 days/week in our Minneapolis Office (on iconic St Anthony Main across from Downtown...with attached parking at no cost to you!) The pay range for this role is $117,000 to $158,000, with an annual bonus target of 20%.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to distributed systems and high-traffic cloud environments.
Solid proficiency with core AWS services (EC2, Aurora RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway) and a working knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
A track record of independently owning and delivering complex, ambiguous projects with minimal oversight, and clearly communicating technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
You treat uptime and operational resilience as core design considerations, building in graceful degradation and fault tolerance rather than reacting after instability hits production.
A security-conscious approach to design. You consider security implications early rather than as a late-sprint checklist item.

Nice To Haves

Experience with JVM-based service frameworks such as Dropwizard and Ratpack, and comfort working across Java, Kotlin, and Groovy within the same platform.
Exposure to systems-level languages like Rust, particularly where logic is shared across cloud and embedded/hub runtimes
Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using AWS Kinesis, SQS, and SNS for asynchronous processing and eventual consistency across services.
Familiarity with AWS data stores — DynamoDB, Aurora/MySQL, and caching layers like Memcached or Redis — and the trade-offs between them.
Experience building resilient service-to-service communication using circuit breakers, retries, and bulkheads (e.g., resilience4j).
Experience with progressive delivery practices — feature flagging (e.g., LaunchDarkly) and canary/staged rollouts.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Atlantis) and configuration management for EC2-based fleets (Ansible).

Responsibilities

Act as the technical lead for complex features and initiatives within the Apps & Behaviors Platform (the systems powering SmartApp and Rules & Automations execution) independently decomposing ambiguous requirements into clear, executable plans.
Apply strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure to design and build scalable, reliable components, following AWS Well-Architected best practices.
Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices in your own workflow and help teammates apply them to speed up debugging, testing, triage, and delivery.
Own your features end-to-end — from application code through the infrastructure and release changes they require — improving the reliability, maintainability, and observability of the systems you touch.
Identify gaps in existing solutions and propose more effective technical approaches to improve efficiency and scalability.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, meaningfully contributing to their growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health
HSA with employer contribution
Life & disability insurance
FSAs for health and dependent care expenses
Competitive 401k with a 5% employer match
Unlimited PTO
12 paid holidays
Generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave)
Education reimbursement program
Access to learning resources through O’Reilly
Parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost
EV chargers onsite
In-office catered lunches on Thursdays
Access to the onsite gym