Sr. Software Engineer - Platform

Job Description Excited to grow your career? We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions.
If you think the open position is right for you, we encourage you to apply! Our people make all the difference in our success.
Our mission is to power a brighter future together.
One that is safe, smart, and sustainable.
Who Are We: Vivint is a leading smart home company in North America.
Vivint delivers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation, and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros and 24/7 customer care and monitoring.
Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than 1.
7 million customers.
The Role: The Ecosystem team within the Vivint Innovation Center is looking for a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team.
You will be working on experiences to support our world-class smart home solutions.
We are looking to grow our team of exceptional engineers.
Join us and use your passion for engineering cool solutions to create the world's best smart home experience.
What you will do: Collaborate closely with software engineers representing other disciplines to build amazing experiences from top to bottom.
Leverage your technical expertise and interpersonal skills to help the team make great implementation decisions together, including active participation in code reviews and other software lifecycle activities.
Work in a fast-paced, self-directed, agile environment.
Research and evaluate new technologies and tools.
Contribute to new feature development, maintenance, and architectural activities.
Actively participate in the Platform guild with fellow engineers to develop better organization-wide development practices and solve hard problems.
Participate in a quarterly "Innovation Week" and work on innovative projects of your choice.
Put smart home products in your own home and experience your work product firsthand.
Who you will work with: You will be a central part of a cross-functional delivery team focused on building customer experiences with new products that will help Vivint grow into new spaces.
You will work closely with product management, program management, QA, UX designers, and others.
The position resides within the Ecosystem team.
We are aligned in priorities and goals, and strong collaboration and employee satisfaction is a hallmark of our efforts.
We succeed and fail together.
You will find team members to be incredibly bright, driven, helpful, and supportive.
What we're looking for: Experience with well-known design patterns Experience with queueing, caching, persistence, performance, and concurrency techniques Experience contributing to scalable, high-availability, low-latency, distributed solutions Experience building RESTful services Experience with microservice architecture with gRPC Experience with any of the following is a plus: Python, Go, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS, Oauth2, security and data privacy 5+ years of relevant work experience B.
S.
in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Skills that are highly desired, but you can learn them on the job: Agile development processes (Scrum) Mentoring fellow mobile engineers Driving architectural changes within an organization IoT products and services (security, home automation) WORKING CONDITIONS: This job operates in a professional office environment.
SAFETY: Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment.
Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements.
Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public.
Employees must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report, and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.