Staff Frontend Engineer

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:

By joining Sonar, you will play a crucial role in enhancing SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server. You will provide teams and developers around the world with an exceptional experience, empowering them to develop better software.

As part of the role, you will join an on-call rotation, ensuring that critical system issues are promptly addressed, thereby minimizing downtime and maintaining a seamless experience for our users.

What You Will Do Daily:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and UX designers to specify and design new features.
• Participate in sprints with your team to deliver new features with a focus on the end user.
• Maintain and enhance existing features, incorporating feedback from colleagues and the community.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and provide meaningful feedback to peers.
• Contribute to the team's growth by improving tools and processes and by mentoring other engineers.
• Engage with the community on product forums to offer support and gather insights.
• Help solve production problems related to the team’s features.

The Experience You Will Need:

• 5+ years of experience as a Front End Software Engineer.
• 1+ year of experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent level.
• Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• TypeScript Development: Demonstrated expertise in TypeScript, including a good understanding of its ecosystem and tooling.
• Modern Front-End Frameworks: Proficiency with React (preferred) or other modern front-end frameworks, ensuring efficient and scalable user interfaces.
• Leadership: you’re able to take initiative and bring a subject to completion with little to no supervision. You have experience supporting and mentoring other team members.
• Source Code Quality: Commitment to high-quality code through comprehensive unit and integration tests and end-to-end tests, ensuring robust and maintainable software.
• Excellent communication skills: ability to articulate ideas clearly and engage with diverse stakeholders.
• A team player: always willing to help and support others, enhancing their autonomy.
• Independent, proactive, and eager to learn.
• Not afraid to step outside their comfort zone and contribute to other technical areas

Nice to have:

• REST API Design: Experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, facilitating seamless integration and communication between systems.
• Full-Stack Development: Experience developing backends with Java.
• Experience architecting cloud native applications on AWS.

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:

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive  23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.
• We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
• 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.
• Monthly catered events, and team events.

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.