What you will do
- Partner with Product Managers, UX designers, and EMs to define impactful features and elevate product usability.
- Drive end-to-end feature development with a strong focus on user experience, ensuring quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing.
- Architect and guide the technical direction of our cloud-based products, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Take ownership of the team's delivery ability, proactively aiming at successful completion of initiatives.
- Own the release lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization of new features in production.
- Act as a technical point of contact to resolve complex, high-priority production issues impacting our features.
- Provide technical mentorship, coaching engineers to increase their autonomy, system understanding, and skills.
- Champion and contribute to efficient development processes.
- Define and influence the team's long-term technical roadmap and short-term objectives.
- Initiate and lead significant cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Design and execute high-value experiments.
Experience and qualifications
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Tech Lead or equivalent leadership level.
- Practical experience with both backend (Java) and frontend web development (JS/TS and React).
- Excellent abilities of problem solving, and collaborative technical decision-making.
- Developing clean and maintainable code, having design patterns and application’s architecture in mind.
- Advanced knowledge of engineering processes, software architecture, and systems optimization.
- Demonstrated expertise in systems resilience and adopting operational best practices.
- Excellent technical skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Experience architecting cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres) and SQL.
- Code Quality practices (CI/CD, automated testing), constructive code reviews.
- Extensive hands-on experience with experimentation, incorporating customer feedback into the development cycle.
- Practical experience with distributed systems that serve millions of users.
Additional comments
This role is based in Geneva. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Geneva, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.
We value diversity, equity, and inclusion
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.