Software Development Engineer Job at WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
WatchGuard embraces a Flexible Work Philosophy. Most of our employees can choose to work from the office, at home, or any combination of the two. We’ve built a global workforce of outstanding team members and a flexible culture built on trust, collaboration, and belonging.
This role can be located remote anywhere in USA or Canada
Who you are
You are the front-end developer who designs and builds front-end web applications to manage WIFI Access Point appliances that interacts with cloud-based applications on AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud services. You are well experienced with writing tested, idiomatic, and well-documented TypeScript, HTML, CSS/SCSS, writing cross-browser compatible code, and creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components that built on elements and modules of core Angular.
You communicate thoroughly with Product Owners and the backend developers to help build a best-practice RESTful API and understand what is needed for a smooth workflow among yourself, front-end developers, UX (User Experience) designers, and QA (Quality Assurance) engineers. You come with proven experience of working with teams using Agile methodologies, JIRA, and Confluence.
What to expect as a “Front-End Developer” in WatchGuard:
The front-end developer role for the WI-FI project is one of important positions in our “Secure Wi-Fi” engineering team, and as you ramp up in your responsibilities, you would be helping us achieving the following objectives:
1. Ensuring to implement high performance, best user experience flow with all the standards and best practices for the Wi-Fi project feature roadmap
2. Optimizing the existing complex workflow into simple steps, using alternate technologies/libraries to simplify the current complex works
3. Troubleshooting the Wi-Fi Access Point customer issues that needs to fix in timely manner.
A Typical “Day in the Life of Front-End Developer” in WatchGuard:
As our front-end developer who builds highly performing management GUI to manage WatchGuard Wi-Fi products, you might meet with PO (Product Owner) and UX designer to discuss the functional specifications related to new services that they want to offer to the customers. Then, you work closely with the backend service developers to implement Rest API, conduct the integration tests. You often review and comment the code written by your team mates and participate in technical discussions to solve the problems run into the feature implementation.
Your manager or the technical lead might ask you to troubleshoot the customer issue that are assigned to you during the sprint planning meeting or escalated by Product Owner. Then, we might work closely with QA engineer or technical support engineers to investigate the issue(s) as required.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000, exclusive of benefits. This position is also eligible for a bonus of 5% of the base salary. Your base salary compensation will be based on your individual skills, education, and experience. Please keep in mind that the above range is the full base salary range for this role; hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical in order to allow for future salary growth.
U.S. Benefits
- Under our Flexible Work Philosophy, most employees can work from an office, at home, or any combination of the two.
- Comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- FSA with employer contribution
- 13 holidays, including a floating holiday, Juneteenth, and your birthday
- 15 days of paid annual leave
- 9 days of paid sick time
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) with employer match
Other Perks
- Education assistance program
- Dependent Care FSA match
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility care support
- Backup care for family and pets
- A growing network of employee resource groups
- Employee referral program
- Virtual boot camp
- Employee Assistance Program
Why Work for WatchGuard?
WatchGuard is a global leader in network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Our award-winning products and services are trusted worldwide by more than 18,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers. Our technology keeps our customers ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers and has fueled record revenues at WatchGuard.
WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with team members working remotely and in offices worldwide.
Our company culture places an intense focus on our customers and employees. From the newest employee to our CEO, you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our Core Values: Accountability, Community, Belonging, Action, Innovation, and Customer-Centric. Learn more about our company culture at www.watchguard.com/wgrd-careers.
WatchGuard provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees, regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, age, sex, sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity), marital status, mental or physical disability, honorably discharged veteran or military status or any other category protected by federal, state or local laws. Our equal employment opportunity (or EEO) policy focuses solely on the talent, hard work, contributions, and actual results achieved by each WatchGuard employee and on the potential of employment candidates to make such contributions. We consider focusing on an employee's protected characteristics rather than on talent, hard work, and actual work results to violate our EEO policy. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce. WatchGuard participates in E-verify.
WatchGuard is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.
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