Staff Full Stack Engineer (Java, React)

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, Sonar’s 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 – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. 

Why You Should Apply: 

At Sonar, we’re 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 don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's 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, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

As a member of one of our engineering teams, you'll be a key player in making SonarQube Server and Cloud 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. Our team specializes in delivering features for large customers on our enterprise plans.

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:

• Partner with Product Managers, UX designers, and EMs to define impactful features and elevate product usability.
• Drive end-to-end feature development with a strong focus on user experience, ensuring quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing.
• Architect and guide the technical direction of our cloud-based products, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Take ownership of the team's delivery ability, proactively aiming at successful completion of initiatives.
• Own the release lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization of new features in production.
• Act as a technical point of contact to resolve complex, high-priority production issues impacting our features.
• Provide technical mentorship, coaching engineers to increase their autonomy, system understanding, and skills.
• Champion and contribute to efficient development processes.
• Define and influence the team's long-term technical roadmap and short-term objectives.
• Initiate and lead significant cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Design and execute high-value experiments.

The Experience You Will Need:

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Tech Lead or equivalent leadership level.
• Practical experience with both backend (Java) and frontend web development (JS/TS and React).
• Excellent abilities of problem solving, and collaborative technical decision-making.
• Developing clean and maintainable code, having design patterns and application’s architecture in mind.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering processes, software architecture, and systems optimization.
• Demonstrated expertise in systems resilience and adopting operational best practices.
• Excellent technical skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• Experience architecting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres) and SQL.
• Code Quality practices (CI/CD, automated testing), constructive code reviews.
• Extensive hands-on experience with experimentation, incorporating customer feedback into the development cycle. 
• Practical experience with distributed systems that serve millions of users.

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 success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're 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.