Principal Software Engineer, Gliffy

Perforce is a community of collaborative experts, problem solvers, and possibility seekers who believe work should be both challenging and fun. We are proud to inspire creativity, foster belonging, support collaboration, and encourage wellness. At Perforce, you’ll work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in business. Before you know it, you’ll be in the middle of a rewarding career at a company headed in one direction: upward.

With a global footprint spanning more than 80 countries and including over 75% of the Fortune 100, Perforce Software, Inc. is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions for the toughest challenges. The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce.

We are looking for an experienced senior software engineer, who has hands-on experience with Java and Node.js based backends. Your daily tasks will include feature development, technical designs, refactoring and creating proof of concept solutions for our products and Atlassian integrations.

The No. 1 diagram app for software teams, Gliffy helps companies draw together. Teams can drag and drop their way to compelling diagrams and productive collaboration. What’s more, Gliffy seamlessly integrates with most platforms including Confluence and Jira to bring ideas to life. 

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design for complex enterprise products
• Write application code in Gliffy backends and integrations
• Create new and updated existing Java/Node.js based backend services
• Create documentation about features you develop that is sufficient for others in your team to understand what has been done and how to use the deliverables
• Analyse performance and security of the components you are working with and provide input for improvements
• Do meaningful code and design reviews for other developers in your agile team
• Write unit and integration tests for the code changes
• Work with rest of the agile team to break down business requirements into technical tasks
• Refactor old codebase
• Create Proof of Concept solutions for new technologies and features
• Mentor and technically guide other engineers on the team

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• You have 12+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, ideally with complex systems, and Enterprise applications
• SaaS mindset - building the system and then also partner with SRE in operations
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript and Java (mandatory)
• Experience of working with JS based frameworks like React/Vue will also be highly desirable
• Extensive experience with APIs (both consumer and provider sides)
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with Redis and at least one SQL based database engine
• Experience with security mechanisms for user accounts like OAUTH, JWT, etc
• Worked in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, etc)
• Understanding of GenAI based application development - knowledge of RAG, langchain and prompt engineering

Nice to have:

• Experience with WebSockets
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Rancher
• Experience with Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence) API’s
• Experience with OpenAI chatGPT and MLOps

Come work with us! Our team members are valued for their contributions, introduced to new opportunities, and rewarded well. Perforce combines the experience and rewards of a start-up with the security of an established and privately held profitable company.

If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with talented and dedicated people across the globe, apply today!

www.perforce.com

Perforce Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, family or relationship structure, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. Perforce Software's management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and general treatment during employment.