Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Work Arrangement: Remote

Work Location: USA

Requisition: #6412

Job Overview:

Spirent is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop applications and workflows. This role will author, maintain, and refactor critical automated and business processes.

About Spirent Communications

Spirent is the leading global provider of automated test and assurance solutions for communications networks, cybersecurity, and positioning.

We provide innovative products, services, and managed solutions that address the test, assurance, and automation challenges of a new generation of technologies, including 5G, cloud, autonomous vehicles, and beyond. From testing in the lab to testing in the real world, Spirent helps companies deliver on their promise to their customers of a new generation of connected devices and technologies.

Why Spirent?... Because together we can shape tomorrow!

Spirent is its people. When you join the Spirent team, you will join forces and work alongside some of the industry’s most passionate subject matter experts. In an environment of innovation, you will find a place where you can grow, think, explore, create, and make change happen.

At Spirent, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to thriving in the ever-changing world of global technology. We embrace a culture where difference is valued and openness, mutual respect, collaboration, and fairness are considered fundamental. Spirent does not tolerate discrimination or offensive behavior of any kind. We are committed to creating workplaces that genuinely reflect the diversity of the world we serve and an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic self to work.

Your success is vital to our success, which is why we will support you to perform, grow, and contribute with the confidence to be yourself. And to support your personal wellbeing, we hope you will love our dedication to creating the right work and life balance experience!

Join Spirent and together let’s shape tomorrow!

Job Responsibilities:

• Accept high-level requirements from Engineering management and break them down into estimates, design, user stories, and tasks.
• Build applications and workflow engines that solve challenges and bottlenecks.
• Must be self-sufficient and capable of working in areas outside the current team’s skill base.
• Produce clean, understandable, well-tested, and documented code following best practices.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems as it relates to systems automation and tools.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, from an accredited institution, or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 8 years of strong design experience in full stack development using various technologies required.
• Expert knowledge and experience with Python.
• Strong experience in API backend service development.
• Proficient in UI development using React JS and other front-end technologies.
• Some exposure and experience using BI applications such as Tableau, Power BI, or Qlik is preferred.
• Experience with containerized applications is preferred.
• Strong experience with data modeling using relational and document-based databases.
• Expert knowledge working with source control such as git.
• Experience with building Jenkins pipelines and containerized jobs.
• Experience with JIRA or similar tracking systems in an agile development environment.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and feature enhancements in existing systems and applications.
• Work closely with other engineers to continuously improve development best practices.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Enterprise software product development experience is a plus.
• Security product and industry experience desired.
• Strong curiosity and problem-solving skills are a requisite.
• Jack-of-All trade mentality is a strong plus.