The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will design and maintain cloud-native services primarily using Java, mentor other engineers, and collaborate on user stories and technical approaches while ensuring service reliability and best practices in software development.
Summary Generated by Built In
xMatters, an Everbridge Company, is hiring a full-time, remote Senior Software Engineer with a strong foundation in Java and increasing responsibility across the full stack. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys owning services end-to-end, collaborating closely with product and design partners, and making thoughtful use of modern development tools, including coding assistants and generative AI, in an intelligent and responsible way as part of day-to-day development.
You’ll join a collaborative, fast-moving engineering team building highly available, cloud-based software used by organizations around the world.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain highly available, cloud-native services, with a primary focus on Java-based back-end systems
- Contribute across the stack, including APIs, service integrations, and front-end or UI-adjacent work as needed
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to define and refine user stories and technical approaches
- Mentor and support other engineers through collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Own services end-to-end, from development through deployment and production operations (DevOps mindset)
- Use modern development tooling, including coding assistants and generative AI, to improve productivity, while applying sound engineering judgment, code review, and security best practices
What You’ll bring
- A degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years’ experience in enterprise application development with Java
- Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems.
- Experience developing applications for a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres, etc.
- Experience with REST APIs, microservice architecture and service-to-service communication
- Solid knowledge of unit, integration and automation testing methodologies
- Comfort working across layers of an application and learning new technologies as needed
- Working knowledge of frontend technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and modern frameworks such as React etc.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, clean code and best practices
Added advantage
- Ability to analyze and understand a novel codebase and complex system interactions with the effective use of coding assistants
- Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum
- Prior work with frameworks/tools such as SpringBoot, Kafka, Cassandra, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Performance analysis and JVM tuning skills
- Comfortable building metrics, monitoring, and alerting for micro-services
- Knowledge and experience working with software architecture design patterns
- Prior experience thoughtfully incorporating AI-assisted development tools into established engineering workflows
Why Choose Us? Dive into a World Where Innovation Meets Impact!
- Ignite Your Passion with Thriving Innovation: Step into an environment where energy and forward-thinking are the norms, not the exception. We're not just about keeping up; we're about leading the charge. Immerse yourself in a culture that breathes creativity, values continuous learning, and thrives on staying several steps ahead in the technology race.
- Shape the Future with Significant Impact: Here, your work doesn't just add value—it sets the direction. Be at the heart of driving our technological evolution, where every contribution you make leaves a lasting imprint on our projects and echoes in the satisfaction of our users. It's not just about being part of the journey; it's about leading the way.
- Experience the Power of Unified Collaboration: Join forces with a band of skilled visionaries—product managers, designers, and developers who share a boundless passion for excellence and a relentless drive to deliver nothing but the best. Our unity is our strength, fostering a collaborative spirit that turns innovative ideas into reality.
- Be a Pioneer of Innovation: With us, agility is more than a buzzword; it's our essence. We embrace change, turning challenges into opportunities with our dynamic approach. Our commitment to your growth is unwavering, offering flexible schedules, personalized training, and a purpose-driven career path that encourages every team member to flourish.
- A Culture That Cares: Beyond just creating innovative solutions, we cultivate a positive atmosphere where mistakes are stepping stones to mastery, not missteps to be feared. We offer comprehensive benefits, including health and term insurance, alongside rewards and recognitions that celebrate your hard work and dedication.
- Live by Our "CLIP" Values: Customer First, Learning, Integrity, People—these values guide us, shining as our North Star, inspiring us to grow, innovate, and lead with conviction, and are driven by passions and relish in crafting high-quality software.
- Join Our Journey: Embark on a path where no two days are the same, if coding is your refuge and excellence your standard, your search ends here.
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About Everbridge
Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter. Everbridge… Empowering Resilience
Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Top Skills
Amazon Web Services
Cassandra
Coding Assistants
CSS
Docker
Generative Ai
Google Cloud Platform
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Kafka
Kubernetes
Microservice Architecture
Postgres
React
Rest Apis
Spring Boot
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The Company
What We Do
Keeping People Safe and Businesses Running. Faster.
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,300 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans.
