Software Engineer (Java)

Who is Sonar

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide including the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient . We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

As a member of one of our engineering teams youll be a key player in making SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server the best tools for Code Quality and Security providing new features to deliver high-quality and powerful products and services that help our users write better software.

You will have the opportunity to see your features come to life in Production with short iteration loops. While keeping our roadmap and business priorities in mind you will be able to have a high impact on the software that we own and develop.

By joining us you will bring your experience and expertise to help push our product to its next stage of evolution and fulfill the needs of our large user and customer base.

What You Will Do Daily:

• Work with Product Managers and UX designers to specify new features and improve our products.
• Develop those new features with the end user in mind and write unit tests and integration tests for them.
• Lead the definition of the architecture of our applications on AWS.
• Have strong ownership of the teams work and drive sprints to completion.
• Deploy and monitor our new features in production.
• Help solve production problems related to our teams features.
• Provide mentorship to engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Work with agile methodologies.
• Contribute to the definition of the teams short and long-term goals.

The Experience You Will Need:

• 6 years of experience as a Java Software Engineer.
• Developing in Java with clean and maintainable code having design patterns and the applications architecture in mind.
• Experience architecting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Good knowledge of engineering processes structural design and system optimization.
• Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• Leadership: youre able to take initiative and bring a subject to completion with little to no supervision. You have experience supporting and mentoring other team members.
• Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres) and SQL.
• Code Quality practices (experience in using testing frameworks) constructive code reviews.
• Tooling: Knowledge of build tools (Maven or Gradle); Experience with a version control system such as git

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar:

• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus paid annually.
• Commuting:Sustainable mobility options including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
• Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities.
• We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

We Value Diversity Equity and Inclusion:

At Sonar we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds perspectives and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.