Software Development Engineer II (Remote)

Company: LivePerson
Location: Garland
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

LivePerson is a transformational force in how brands and consumers communicate. With over 18,000 brands, including Citi, HSBC, Verizon, and Home Depot, we are on a mission to make life easier for people and brands everywhere through trusted Conversational AI. We believe in a future where conversations are the norm for getting your intentions fulfilled - whatever they are.

We are an innovative, intent-driven company that believes in building the future and we are looking for growth minded, unconventional thinkers, developers and builders to join the team.

You Will Thrive Here If

You can operate in a fast paced, dynamic environment

You can build partnerships that move our business forward

You build code that is simple, understandable, and clean

You see feedback or failure as motivation to learn and to grow

You believe data-driven decision making is the norm

You relate to our core principles (link) and want to work with Conversational AI experts

As part of the Product Experience and Strategy group, the Partners initiative is a set of new products and services with the aim to provide a comprehensive experience for our marketplace resellers, distribution channels, and professional services partners that encompasses the entire lifecycle from user and account management, campaign management and operations, to analytics and reporting. We aim to create a view of our platform across the breadth of our services that is tailored to their needs and to provide the tools necessary to accomplish their goals in a performant and scalable fashion.

We are looking for engineers who will bring their experience, expertise, and enthusiasm to contribute to this project. If you are excited about working on a fast moving team that will operate with the agility of a startup and with the resources of an established company, and if you are excited about creating products that will have a high visibility and impact across the company and to our customers, then we want to talk to you!

In This Role You Will
Contribute to the design and implementation of significant portions of the product development.
Help set the features, architecture, and best practices of the team, and have significant influence on our overall strategy.
Collaborate with engineering teams across the organization.
Create a reliable, scalable, and high performance service requiring exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
Create complex solutions with an unrelenting focus on the customer experience.

Your Qualifications Are
A proven record for setting a high bar throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing and operations.
A history of commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills.
Experience with the delivery of large-scale, high-quality distributed systems.
Experience developing high quality technology products in a dynamic environment.
Experience with development and operations in cloud platforms preferred.
A solid foundation in object oriented design patterns and a solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Experience working on large scale deployments and performance tuning.
Experience with security and user management preferred.
5+ years experience building successful production software systems.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Your Experience Includes
Familiarity with a modern front-end framework such as Vue or React.
Familiarity with Javascript and Node.js or another dynamic language.
A solid foundation in a modern object oriented programming language.
A solid understanding of the HTTP lifecycle and REST principles.
Familiarity with SQL and NOSQL databases, including design and performance testing.
Experience with modern development tools, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.

Why You'll Love Working Here

LivePerson was named to FastCompany's World's most innovative companies of 2020 list for the Artificial Intelligence category. We offer top tier tech & data science colleagues, along with opportunities to push your own limits. We embrace invention and experimentation. You'll have great benefits, flexible time off, plus snacks and drinks to keep your mind fresh and stomach full. Most importantly, you'll have an ability to make an impact at work and at brands across the globe as we build the future with trusted Conversational AI together.

At LivePerson, people from diverse backgrounds come together to do their best work and be their authentic selves. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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