Software Engineer III

Job Description Summary

Software Engineer III is the technical backbone of a product area — the person who can take an ambiguous problem, from a bug fix to a multi-sprint feature, and own it end-to-end without needing to be told how to break it down.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Own delivery for a significant slice of F360's product surface: bugs, enhancements, and net-new features alike.

• Take on large, ambiguous problems and structure them into a plan others can execute against.

• Design, build, and maintain code and data across the F360 stack, with working knowledge of how products, workflows, and edge cases connect across systems.

• Turn product requirements into technical specs: partner with product owners on requirements, research, and proofs of concept.

• Plan and run projects — set milestones, delegate work, and manage the resources needed to hit them.

• Write tests and documentation for every change, and call out gaps in coverage before they become production issues.

• Review peers' code and participate in architecture/design discussions with real influence over outcomes.

• Diagnose and resolve complex bugs, fixing the root cause rather than just the symptom.

• Mentor and unblock less senior engineers as part of daily work, not as a side project.

• Own features through production — participate in on-call rotation and take responsibility for incident response on services this role owns.

• Identify where technical debt or architecture choices are limiting team velocity, and make the case for addressing it — not just execute assigned work.

Required Skills:

• 5–8 years of software development/engineering experience.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent certification in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Software Engineering (or equivalent experience).

• Strong grasp of system design, data structures, and modern development practices.

• Hands-on with Java, Python, React, or similar; comfortable with Playwright, Vitest, JUnit, VSCode/IntelliJ.

• Experience building and consuming REST and SOAP APIs (sync and async), including caching and fault tolerance.

• Comfortable designing relational schemas and working with NoSQL data stores.

• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and inter-service communication patterns.

• Fluent in Git-based workflows and tools like Jira.

• Track record of independently scoping, estimating, and communicating project timelines.

• Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers.

• Familiarity with observability tooling — logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting (e.g., Datadog-class platforms) — as baseline competency, not just testing.

• Secure coding practices and data-privacy awareness (OWASP-level fluency), given F360 handles fan/customer data.

• Named fluency in CI/CD pipeline design and cloud-native practices (containers, infrastructure-as-code) — beyond just using a pipeline someone else built.

• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, Gemini) as part of the daily workflow — not just aware they exist.