Forcepoint is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer responsible for planning, designing, developing and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. Having a wide-ranging experience, you will use professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways and will frequently contribute to the development of new ideas, methods and/or theories. You will also be responsible for the following:
• Developing code according to company standards and quality processes
• Debugging product-level issues, and identifying relevant faulty components, even outside of areas of deep specialization
• Fostering team collaboration, trust, psychological safety, and continual improvement
• Mentoring, interviewing, and hiring junior engineers
• Writing unit tests and reviewing unit tests of others
• Creating a test strategy that includes all quadrants of the Agile Testing Quadrant for all development work including bug fixes and reviewing test strategies created by others on the team
• Creating and executing tests from all quadrants of the Agile Test Quadrant
• Suggesting and implementing quality focused innovations in the production codebase, CI/CD, and automated test frameworks
What experience and knowledge are we looking for:
• Expertise in multiple programming languages (e.g. JAVA, C, C++, C#, Python, Perl, Assembler, Go, and others), as well as some of the supporting technologies (e.g. full expertise in Web APIs and protocols like TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, and others such as debuggers, disassemblers and various OS including Linux and Windows)
• Strong understanding of the product(s), including its business aspects, customer use cases, and end-to-end architecture
• The capability of designing and driving implementation of features that span the entire product and require collaboration of multiple architectural teams
• The capability of technically leading small teams of 2-4 engineers to deliver larger and more complex features
• Be a confident presenter on your subject matter expertise with the ability to present internally across the business and externally to customers or at conferences
• Be an evangelist of agile software development and metrics such as DORA
• Bachelor of Science in CS or related field and 7+ years of related experience; or equivalent work experience.
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