Software Engineer II

What You’ll Do

SimpliSafe’s Monitoring Engineering organization is looking for motivated, self-reliant engineers with a backend focus to join our team.

We’re building next-generation monitoring experiences that rise head and shoulders above our industry, leveraging our best-in-class technology and our focus on people. We embrace modern software design and craftsmanship, and support and own our work through its entire lifecycle. In this role, you’ll embrace and extend the backend systems that connect our customers to our Monitoring Center specialists — everything from day-to-day bug squashing, feature implementation, and the design and architecture of parts of a larger project will be in your scope.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features and fix bugs, with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Collaborate closely with the team to identify creative and robust solutions to problems
• Develop and maintain testing approaches to ensure that our tools and services are maintainable and continue to perform at their peak into the future.

Requirements

• Experience working solo on bug fixes and small features as part of a larger product, under the guidance of senior technical staff.
• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript, with a willingness to learn other tools and languages.
• A collaborative mindset, passion for technology and learning, and strong customer focus.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with product teams to resolve ambiguity and with other engineering teams to design the correct technological solution.
• Experience as a practitioner of continuous integration & delivery, test automation, etc.
• Thorough understanding of cloud technologies, and relevant methodologies such as infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, etc.

What Values You’ll Share

• Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
• Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
• No Ego - Maintaining a “no job too small” attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.
• One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
• Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
• Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.