Sr Software Engineer

SmartThings•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

SmartThings is a leading IoT ecosystem and a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, dedicated to creating effortless smart home experiences for over 430 million users globally. The company delivers powerful experiences across Samsung’s diverse product portfolio, including phones, TVs, and appliances, and operates as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem. As a founding member of Matter, SmartThings is a leader in advancing secure, reliable, and seamless smart home technology. The Events team is responsible for developing and operating the SmartThings Cloud Event Pipeline, which serves as the nervous system of Samsung’s global IoT platform. This pipeline processes hundreds of thousands of events per second from millions of SmartThings devices, delivering them to mobile devices, internal systems, and external integrations. To support a growing user base and introduce new functionalities, the Events team is building new microservices using high-performance, scalable technologies. The team is seeking a highly skilled software engineer with experience in building scalable cloud services to contribute to platform growth driven by Samsung products like Galaxy Smartphones, Neo QLED TVs, Bespoke appliances, and the revolutionary Matter project.

Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science or related
5+ years of related experience
Professional history developing services with Java and the JVM Ecosystem
Strong experience designing and implementing scalable, well-structured REST APIs
Background building cloud-native services to operate on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Experience designing and implementing event driven architectures with data streaming systems like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis (Kafka is preferred)
Data design and efficient access with SQL (e.g. MySQL or PostGreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB or Cassandra) database systems
Experience writing automated tests leveraging frameworks such as JUnit, Spock or Kotest
Effective collaboration through Git version control
Demonstrated experience delivering systems end-to-end from design through production launch, monitoring, and iteration
Ability to collaborate with peer teams, quality assurance and product management to build the best solution for our customers

Nice To Haves

Experience with other JVM languages, especially Kotlin, is a plus
Familiarity with frameworks like Micronaut, Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, especially focused on asynchronous and reactive patterns
Familiarity with processes and tools that enable Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Knowledge of distributed cache solutions (e.g. Redis, Valkey, Memcached)

Responsibilities

Drive the execution and delivery of critical features within the Events team
Implement solutions to complicated globally distributed problems at massive scale
Participate in total ownership of the Event Pipeline, from design and development to testing and operational support
Provide highly reliable services with zero-down time
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
Contribute to technical design documents and architectural discussions for the Events team

Benefits

attractive compensation package
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
commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost
EV chargers are also onsite
In-office catered lunches on Thursdays
Access to the onsite gym
20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance