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Senior Software Engineer, Apps & Behaviors
Job Location:
Job Location:
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 117000 - 158000
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
16 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
18 November 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
This role is hybrid 3 days/week in our Minneapolis Office (on iconic St Anthony Main across from attached parking at no cost to you!)
The pay range for this role is $117000 to $158000 with an annual bonus target of 20%.
Key Responsibilities
In this role your primary responsibilities will include the following:
- Act as the technical lead for complex features and initiatives within the Apps & Behaviors Platform (the systems powering SmartApp and Rules & Automations execution) independently decomposing ambiguous requirements into clear executable plans.
- Apply strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure to design and build scalable reliable components following AWS Well-Architected best practices.
- Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices in your own workflow and help teammates apply them to speed up debugging testing triage and delivery.
- Own your features end-to-end from application code through the infrastructure and release changes they require improving the reliability maintainability and observability of the systems you touch.
- Identify gaps in existing solutions and propose more effective technical approaches to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers meaningfully contributing to their growth.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
Inclusive Hiring Practices
Dont meet all desired requirements Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At SmartThings we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- 5 years of software engineering experience with meaningful exposure to distributed systems and high-traffic cloud environments.
- Solid proficiency with core AWS services (EC2 Aurora RDS DynamoDB API Gateway) and a working knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- A track record of independently owning and delivering complex ambiguous projects with minimal oversight and clearly communicating technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You treat uptime and operational resilience as core design considerations building in graceful degradation and fault tolerance rather than reacting after instability hits production.
- A security-conscious approach to design. You consider security implications early rather than as a late-sprint checklist item.
Desired Skills
- Experience with JVM-based service frameworks such as Dropwizard and Ratpack and comfort working across Java Kotlin and Groovy within the same platform.
- Exposure to systems-level languages like Rust particularly where logic is shared across cloud and embedded/hub runtimes
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using AWS Kinesis SQS and SNS for asynchronous processing and eventual consistency across services.
- Familiarity with AWS data stores DynamoDB Aurora/MySQL and caching layers like Memcached or Redis and the trade-offs between them.
- Experience building resilient service-to-service communication using circuit breakers retries and bulkheads (e.g. resilience4j).
- Experience with progressive delivery practices feature flagging (e.g. LaunchDarkly) and canary/staged rollouts.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Atlantis) and configuration management for EC2-based fleets (Ansible).
SmartThings Benefits
Why Youll Love Working at SmartThings
- We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits including medical dental vision and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match and more.
- All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO 12 paid holidays and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave).
- Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through OReilly.
- Our commitment to diversity equity inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.
- We offer a parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost. EV chargers are also onsite.
- In-office catered lunches on Thursdays.
- Access to the onsite gym.
Base compensation range for this position is $117000 to $158000. Actual base within this range will depend on many factors including experience skills technical expertise and market addition this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance.
At SmartThings we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process or to perform the requirements of the job we will work with you to meet your needs in compliance with applicable laws. Please reach out to and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will connect with you further!
At SmartThings we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process or to perform the requirements of the job we will work with you to meet your needs in compliance with applicable laws. Please reach out to and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will connect with you further!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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