Senior Software Engineer

CubeSmart • Malvern, PA

140d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a hybrid role based out of Malvern, PA (3 days in office). CubeSmart is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Information Technology team at our corporate office in Malvern, PA. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for the technical innovation and leadership of CubeSmart's enterprise store operating platform. CubeSmart is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the development, acquisition, disposition, and management of self-storage facilities. CubeSmart is headquartered in Malvern, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, and is one of the largest self-storage owners and operators in the United States, with more than 1500 locations nationwide. Over the past five years, CubeSmart has grown significantly, acquiring approximately $1.5 billion in assets. Our growth is possible because of our 3,000 teammates across the country who work together to grow the company, serve our Customers, and deliver results through a culture of open communication and collaboration. We are excited to have you join our team and grow with us!

Requirements

• Demonstrated affinity for continuous learning, specifically in the technology domain, leveraging it to build great, reliable products
• At least 6 - 9 years' experience coding, building, maintaining, and supporting web applications
• Deep understanding of all levels of abstraction relevant to web application development, everything from HTTP to SQL, background jobs, and caching
• Day-to-day proficiency using Linux as a development environment
• Experience working in Ruby for at least 3 years
• Proficient in programming languages and concepts around API services and Interfaces: JavaScript, API development concepts and abstracts (JSON, XML, OpenAPI, RESTful)
• Experience with endpoint protocols and security components (SFTP/FTP, File, OAuth2, OIDC, SSL, SSH, LDAP etc.)
• Demonstrate hands-on and fluency in at least one complete stack (RubyOnRails or JavaScript or Python with REST API, Graph QL, SQL, NoSQL, Graph DB's, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with either Test Driven development or Behavior Driven development with a clear understanding of the tool stack
• Innovative problem solver who uses critical thinking approaches to proactively solve a broad range of problems across business processes and related technologies
• A product mentality - the ability to define goals, consider trade-offs, prioritize, defend decisions, and execute
• The ability to build relationships with stakeholders, help others grow in their careers, and create inclusive environments
• Experience with an ACID-compliant RDMS such as PostgreSQL

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with designing, building, and supporting microservices in a hybrid cloud environment
• Experience building containerized applications using GitOps, K8s, Service Mesh, K8s operators
• Experience working with or supporting DevOps teams and working with Infrastructure as Code environments
• Experience working with Jenkins
• Experience with Node.JS and React development
• Experience in Rust
• Experience building cloud native applications on any one cloud preferably AWS, asynchronous communications patterns such as via RabbitMQ/Kafka or other methods, caching via Redis, and AWS deployments and services
• Experience with PostgreSQL databases with massive tables that can never have downtime
• Expertise in unit test, building Integration, smoke and regression testing suite, code coverage process, and pipeline setup
• Experience using a project management/ticketing tool such as JIRA

Responsibilities

• Work directly with stakeholders to elicit requirements and design solutions that fit their needs
• Collaborate with in-house and offshore developers through design proposals, design peer review, pull request reviews, mentoring, and advocating for SLDC best practices and processes that make the team more efficient
• Participate as a core contributor in the technical delivery of the server-side and front-end portion of the application stack on a mission critical high availability application
• Translate complex functional specifications to detail technical designs regarding Test Case, Testing Automation, User Interfaces (UI), Custom Software Applications, middleware technologies, API, API orchestration/choreography, deployment artifacts, artifact packaging, and application monitoring automation, logging, and performance metrics
• Work diligently on the allocated backlog and work to make every team member successful and stay ahead of the team to avoid unpleasant surprises for the team thus actively ensuring delivery within the schedule and allocated budget
• Participate in sprint planning meetings to ensure that the team understands their objectives and has committed to completing their work on an agreed-upon timeline
• Maintain the development environment, documentation on the development tooling strategy and toolchains for effective and efficient delivery of software in support of the chosen methodologies
• Build a culture of engineering excellence with a focus on performance, scalability, privacy, security, and maintainability
• Providing support during on-call rotations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Real Estate
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees