Lead Development Engineer

About Signify

Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.

At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.

Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. 

More about the role

This is an exciting job opportunity for you as a Lead Development Engineer in Burlington, Massachusetts with Signify responsible for creation, management and operation of a diverse set of features, processes, paradigms and technologies that enable the creation of the Signify IoT Platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Focus on design and implementation of new features for the Signify IoT platform.

• Contribute to technology selection and the creation of best practices that enable the IoT Platform engineering teams to build, debug, test, release, manage and secure the IoT Platform’s modern, microservices-based data infrastructure on the cloud.

• Contribute to the definition of common frameworks and software libraries, in various programming languages, that support the creation of efficient, scalable and highly available microservice-based architectures.

• Support with the diagnostics, troubleshooting and operation of the cloud-based IoT Platform system.

• Work closely with architects and technical product managers and other members of your team to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed, implemented and tested software solutions.

• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software in an incremental manner.

• Promoting the adoption of best-in-class software engineering practices, frameworks, and tools.

• Review and approve design and implementations of various components of the IoT Platform.

• Mentor and train new members joining the team on technologies and best practices used in the team.

• Work directly with customers in reviewing their requirements as well as troubleshooting and resolution of issues in their production use cases.

• Local telecommuting permitted.

What you’ll need— Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies

While we value and appreciate all applicants, we believe that the following experience and skills will be needed to shine brightly in this job opening:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field and 3+ years of experience.

• 2+ years of experience must include:

  • Developing microservices and complex microservice-based platform architectures;

  • Distributed systems, designing for scalability, performance and availability;

  • Establishing non-functional best-practices and deploying supporting technologies for improving platform security and reliability (latency, availability, scalability);

  • Data lakes, data warehouses;

  • Containers and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes);

  • Experience with at least one leading Cloud technology AWS OR Azure OR Google Cloud;

  • CI/CD automation;

  • Java;

  • Python;

  • Data persistence technologies including relational databases and no‐SQL solutions;

  • Apache Spark;

  • Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis;

  • Containers and container orchestration including Kubernetes.;

  • Maven;

  • Jenkins.

• Local telecommuting permitted.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United Sates without current or future company sponsorship needs.

Salary: $154,606 - $172,887

Benefits Overview: Company subsidized benefits plan offerings that include Medical, Health Savings Account, Dental, 401K retirement plan with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays/personal days, tuition reimbursement and products discounts. Ability to purchase supplemental benefits that include supplemental life insurance, dependent life insurance, vision insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance, health care flexible spending account and dependent care flexible spending account See #SignifyLife through the eyes of our employees!

Everything we’ll do for you

You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 27,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce present in 70+ countries, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together. 

Come join us, and together we can light up the future.