Software Engineer III

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 11,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world s leading brands
• Solve complex problems and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

• This role will require designing and building scalable backend services, authoring and maintaining proper code, documentation and creating and following effective processes for partner engagement.
• An ideal candidate will bring to the table a solid set of technical skills and experience in the scalable backend services space.

Job Title: Software Engineer III

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partners to design and build scalable backend services and APIs
• Implement and maintain database synchronization solutions across multiple cloud providers to ensure data consistency and high availability
• Provide and manage an API for handling high-traffic push notifications to ensure reliable and scalable delivery
• Deliver a personalized feed to client devices through an API, leveraging organized data ingested by a ranking service
• Design and manage an API that empowers users to customize their experience by selecting preferences, enabling dynamic content recommendations and automated interest tracking for relevant items
• Help partners integrate their apps/services on to company s family of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality devices including but not limited to headsets and Glasses
• Work closely with partner technical teams to integrate with Partner APIs and services
• Develop a robust understanding of the various company s Reality Labs platforms/APIs and underlying implementations
• Ensure great documentation and best practices are created to collaborate with partners

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor s or master s degrees in software engineering or related field required
• Software engineer with 5 years of backend development experience around building, maintaining and scaling backend infra and working on large scale systems that serve a large number of users.
• Software development experience in languages and environments such as Java, Native Development Kit (C++) and/or PHP
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with designing, building and maintaining scalable backend services and API endpoints
• Experience with SQL and no-SQL databases, GraphQL and REST APIs
• Proven experience, communication, analytical, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of scalable data pipelines and experience with ETL pipelines
• Proven expertise in debugging and maintaining scalable services and APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in software engineering or related field is preferred.
• FAANG or Big Tech background preferred.

Location: Menlo Park, CA [Onsite]

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $166,400 $214,240 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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