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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr Software Development Eng - **Company:** NextEra Energy - **Location:** Juno Beach, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Unit Testing, Software Quality, Software Design Documents, Systems Development Life Cycle, Rapid Prototyping Process, Service Design, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, System Testing, Trusted Systems, Devsecops - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=21dcff135312664a ## About the Role Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience Experience: 7+ years, Bachelor's - Engineering ## Description We are seeking a high-caliber Senior Software Development Engineer to join a team building customer-centric solutions for the business. This role is designed for a top-tier engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product intuition and business acumen. You will tackle ambiguous challenges, rapidly prototype solutions directly with stakeholders, and architect scalable, secure systems. You operate with high autonomy, acting as the critical technical bridge that turns business objectives into high-performing software. Key Responsibilities & Expectations 1. Engineering & System Design Architect in Ambiguity: Translate loosely defined business problems into clean, robust architectures while anticipating edge cases. Rapid Prototyping: Where applicable, build functional prototypes with stakeholders to validate ideas instantly and accelerate the feedback loop. Full-Stack Delivery: Own features end-to-end across services, data, and UI, making pragmatic technology choices and avoiding unnecessary complexity. 2. Engineering Productivity with AI AI-Assisted Development: Use agentic AI tools throughout the SDLC to move faster, while maintaining full accountability for code quality, correctness, and security. Feedback Loops for Coding Agents: Design quality gates, spec-driven workflows, and deterministic checks that catch agent errors before humans do. Critical Adoption: Evaluate AI tools and patterns critically, adopting what improves the team's output and discarding what doesn't. 3. Reliability & DevSecOps Security-First Mindset: Embed security and compliance into the core of the development lifecycle, proactively mitigating vulnerabilities through secure design. Production Standards: Build well-tested, maintainable software. Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for an exceptional end-user experience. Operational Readiness: Make production behavior measurable, debuggable, and recoverable by building observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery paths into systems from the start. 4. Execution & Business Ownership Drive Outcomes: Take ownership of delivering meaningful business results, managing scope responsibly, and communicating technical risks early. Technical Translation: Partner closely with Product Managers and business leaders. Articulate complex architectural decisions and tradeoffs in clear, outcome-oriented terms. Partnering Across Functions: Engage security, risk, compliance, and platform teams early, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and make the case when a project calls for a different approach. 5. Culture High Performance: We value high standards, continuous learning, and collaborative problem solving, creating an environment where talented individuals can thrive alongside exceptional teammates. Ownership & Accountability: Team members are trusted to take ownership of their work, exercise thoughtful judgment, and follow through on commitments. Job Overview This position writes and tests software to aid in development and support of products. Individuals in this role work with Technical Leads on software system architecture and service design and typically leads a module in the system. This position participates in required product development process ceremonies. Employees in this role are responsible for writing and refining technical requirements and technical design documentation. Job Duties & Responsibilities Codes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products Conducts system testing and codes unit tests and support features Documents technical requirement and other technical documentation Works with product team to refine product requirements Collaborates on high level software design projects and software system architecture and creates effective component level architectures Leads software module construction from architecture and design to implementation and may lead a small team of engineers in building the module Performs other job-related duties as assigned ## Related Videos - [Are you still programming unit tests or already generating?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/722-are-you-still-programming-unit-tests-or-already-generating) - [DevSecOps: Injecting Security into Mobile CI/CD Pipelines](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/273-devsecops-injecting-security-into-mobile-ci-cd-pipelines) - [What If We Designed Employee Experience Like a Customer Journey?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1824-what-if-we-designed-employee-experience-like-a-customer-journey) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [How will artificial intelligence change the future of software testing?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/85-how-will-artificial-intelligence-change-the-future-of-software-testing) - [Can This Elephant Dance? 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