Sr Software Development Eng

NextEra Energy•Saint Paul, MN

5h•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a high-caliber Senior Software Development Engineer to join a team building customer-centric solutions for the business. This role is designed for a top-tier engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product intuition, business acumen, and an ownership mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, partnering directly with business leaders to understand problems before designing solutions. You rapidly translate ideas into working software, validate assumptions through iteration, and evolve prototypes into scalable production systems. You act as the technical bridge between business strategy and engineering execution, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable customer and business value. This position writes and tests software to aid in development and support of products. Individuals in this role work with Technical Leads on software system architecture and service design and typically leads a module in the system. This position participates in required product development process ceremonies. Employees in this role are responsible for writing and refining technical requirements and technical design documentation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
7+ years Experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s - Engineering

Responsibilities

Take ownership of delivering meaningful business results, managing scope responsibly, and communicating technical risks early.
Partner closely with business leaders. Articulate complex architectural decisions and tradeoffs in clear, outcome oriented terms.
Engage security, risk, compliance, and platform teams early, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and advocate for alternative approaches when a project requires them.
Build trusted relationships with business leaders by translating technical possibilities into business capabilities and clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and investment decisions.
Work directly with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges, identify root causes, and design software that creates measurable business impact.
Translate loosely defined business problems into clean, robust architectures while anticipating edge cases.
Where appropriate, deliver products quickly to stakeholders to validate ideas, gather feedback, and accelerate iteration.
Own features end to end across services, data, and user interfaces, making pragmatic technology choices while avoiding unnecessary complexity.
Use agentic AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to accelerate delivery while maintaining full accountability for code quality, correctness, and security.
Design quality gates, specification driven workflows, and deterministic checks that identify agent errors before they reach human review.
Continuously assess AI capabilities and engineering practices, adopting approaches that measurably improve delivery speed, software quality, and developer experience.
Embed security and compliance into every stage of the development lifecycle, proactively mitigating vulnerabilities through secure design.
Build well tested, maintainable software. Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for an exceptional end user experience.
Make production systems measurable, debuggable, and recoverable by building observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery mechanisms from the outset.
Start with customer and business needs, using technology as the means, not the end, to deliver value.
Maintain high standards, embrace continuous learning, and foster collaborative problem solving in an environment where talented individuals thrive alongside exceptional teammates.
Take ownership of your work, exercise thoughtful judgment, and consistently follow through on commitments.
Operate with a high degree of trust and autonomy while working together to make decisions aligned with business, customer, and operational goals.
Codes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products
Conducts system testing and codes unit tests and support features
Documents technical requirement and other technical documentation
Works with product team to refine product requirements
Collaborates on high level software design projects and software system architecture and creates effective component level architectures
Leads software module construction from architecture and design to implementation and may lead a small team of engineers in building the module
Performs other job-related duties as assigned