Senior Software Engineer

Forrester Research, Inc.
Delphi, United States of America
13 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Delphi, United States of America

Tech stack

JavaScript
Software as a Service
Code Review
Elasticsearch
Python
Neo4j
Performance Tuning
Systems Development Life Cycle
Software Engineering
Software Systems
SQL Databases
React
Grafana
GIT
Event Driven Architecture
Front End Software Development
Microservices

Job description

  • Design and implement features across the stack using sound architectural and implementation practices.

  • Deliver high-quality, defect-free code by anticipating issues and leading thoughtful code reviews.

  • Contribute to system-level design decisions by identifying risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.

  • Strengthen team agile SDLC processes through planning, execution, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

As a Senior And Midlevel Software Engineer (Full Stack), you are a strong team contributor who brings ownership, urgency, curiosity, and creativity across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC). You execute architectural and implementation designs with reliability, taking responsibility for the quality, sustainability, and outcomes of the systems and features you build. You apply sound technical judgment and business context to decision-making, tackling complex problems with curiosity and creativity to deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions. You demonstrate a clear sense of urgency in delivering customer value, balancing speed with engineering excellence. Through clear communication and active collaboration, you elevate engineering quality and team effectiveness by strengthening shared standards and fostering accountability and learning. You take ownership beyond individual tasks by proactively identifying risks, improving systems, and helping remove blockers to drive collective success.

Typical experience for this level is four to eight years of engineering work., + Four to eight years' developing enterprise-grade software solutions.

  • Demonstrated performance as an accomplished team contributor with competency in technical skills, mentorship, and collaboration.

  • The ability to lead or significantly contribute to code reviews, support implementation design decisions, and provide team-level SME input.

  • Experience across the full SDLC: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

Technical Skills (Tech Stack)

  • Experience with Python for services or automation.

  • Proficiency with modern JavaScript and React; React Query preferred.

  • Experience with microservice or micro-frontend architectures.

  • Hands-on experience with SaaS solutions.

  • Experience with SQL.

  • Proficiency with Git and collaborative workflows.

Ways Of Working

  • Comfortable participating in refinement, planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.

  • Strong cross-team collaboration habits across engineering, product, design, and operations.

  • The ability to articulate user value and business context behind engineering decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) and/or Neo4j.

  • Experience with distributed or event-driven systems.

  • Familiarity with observability tools and performance tuning.

  • Experience in a data-rich SaaS or platform environment.

  • Contributions to engineering standards, tooling, or internal libraries.

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About the company

At Forrester, we're trusted to work on trailblazing, mission critical problems that business and technology leaders face today. That's why we're always looking to empower talented individuals to perform at their best every single day. We're proud of our community of smart people and vibrant voices who come together to do what's right by our clients and each other. Our success is driven by curiosity, courage and customer obsession. The confidence and drive to be bold at work. Join us and build an extraordinary future., The information provided by you in this application will be used for the purposes of recruitment and, for successful applicants only, for personnel administration and management purposes and to comply with the employer's obligations regarding the retention of employee records. If your application is unsuccessful, Forrester Research, Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or service providers (collectively "Forrester") will retain your personal information on secure file solely to consider you for future recruitment opportunities. By submitting your resume/CV, you consent to Forrester's retention of the information provided on a secure file for personnel administration and management purposes and/or in order to consider you for future employment opportunities and to the transfer of the information provided to: Forrester's offices in the US and other countries outside the European Economic Area; and Service providers engaged by Forrester for the purposes of processing applications for employment who may be located outside the European Economic Area.

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