Software Engineer III

Overview

We are CalAmp, a connected intelligence company that gives people the ability to track, monitor and recover their vital assets with real-time visibility and insights.

Currently, we are seeking a Software Engineer III, based in Carlsbad, CA. This is an exciting opportunity for those who align with our core values (Inclusion, Innovation, Execution, Customer Success) and for those who desire to build, sell, and/or support connected solutions and services.

Responsibilities

• Translate use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, test deploy, and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable and scalable backend services and API’s
• Participate in design, code, test and architecture/design discussions and peer reviews, and contribute to technical decision-making and tradeoff discussions
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in existing applications
• Consistently improve maintainability and stability, and observability of the codebase
• Ensure high performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify performance bottlenecks and develop solutions
• Identify and implement key application metrics, logging, and monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch)
• Research and utilize new technologies where they can be evaluated and introduced into production systems when appropriate
• Contribute to task estimations and schedules
• Collaborate with product & business operations teams to translate business requirements and build highly robust and scalable products
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments
• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals including object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Proficiency in Java and Object-Oriented Programming
• Experience with advanced Java features such as Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
• Ability to write clean, readable, secure code and adhere to team’s coding guidelines
• Experience developing and maintaining RESTful and event-driven microservices
• Hands-on experience designing and operating scalable services within distributed systems
• Applied experience with various design & architectural patterns and implementing them
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases
• Experience with versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with AWS services including compute (EC2/Lambda), storage (S3), and messaging
• Experience supporting applications in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident resolution
• Experience working with systems that handle real-world scale, concurrency, or high-availability requirements
• Ability to work well independently, as well as collaboratively, to take initiative, and to maintain productivity under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent inter-personal, and communication skills, ability to engage with users and stakeholders across disciplines, verbally and in writing
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Professional experience using at least one additional backend language (e.g., Node.js or Python) in a production setting
• Demonstrated curiosity and continuous learning mindset, with a track record of delivering maintainable production systems
• Ability to propose pragmatic, scalable solutions aligned with business and technical constraints

Strong Pluses

• Expertise in Node.js, Experience with serverless application development and AWS Lambda or Fargate, Experience with GraphQL, Containerization and Kubernetes, & Experience supporting and troubleshooting high availability, real time, production AWS application
• Familiarity with following technologies
  • Kafka
  • Kinesis 
  • Helm
  • AWS cloud services
  • Java Reactive Programming
  • Kubernetes
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Docker
  • Mongo database
• Know-how or adoption of latest cutting-edge technologies
• A working knowledge of agile software development methodologies
• Ability to interact with diverse groups of people including remote and offshore team
• Master's in Computer Science or equivalent

Success Profile

• You have independently delivered backend services to production and supported them post-launch
• You are comfortable debugging complex distributed systems and identifying root causes across services
• You can own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring

Please note: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

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