If you are a Software Engineering professional with experience in cloud native development for the IoT space looking for an opportunity to grow, Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you! Based out of our St. Louis, MO location, you will dive into infrastructure as necessary and have responsibility for the entire software lifecycle. The Senior Agile Software Engineer - Backend is someone who is passionate and enjoys developing code.

As a Senior Agile Software Engineer - Backend, YOU WILL:

• Design and support scalable cloud native solutions with 24/7 uptime requirements using infrastructure as code paradigms
• Write software using modern languages designed to operate in serverless environments
• Develop automated behavioral and unit tests
• Deploy code to production daily ensuring updates comply with security best practices and are easy to rollback
• Develop APIs and protocols to work with websites, 3rd party partners, mobile applications, and IoT devices

WHO YOU ARE:

You look beyond the obvious and don’t stop at the first answers. You facilitate an open dialogue with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders. You tackle difficult issues with optimism and confidence. You view mistakes as opportunities to learn.

Flexible Work Schedule – Remote Work Option and Core Hours

This role has the flexibility of remote work and a core hour schedule. You can choose to flex your start and stop times given you are working during the core hours of 9:00am - 3:00pm (based on team headquarters time zone). Our teams work together to ensure our chosen work schedules enable our creativity and productivity as we serve the needs of our customers. This role also has a travel requirement of up to 1 week per quarter to the St. Louis headquarters, predetermined by leadership in advance.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCES & SKILLS:

• 5 years’ experience in software development
• Knows at least a couple languages well (Go, Elixir, C#, Kotlin, Swift, etc.)
• Experience developing and deploying software on a major cloud native platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Comfortable using automation for development, testing, and deployment of software products
• Enjoys paired programming, and understands the scenarios where it can be helpful
• Comfortable translating business requirements into a design
• Has shipped at least one commercially used software product
• Has some familiarity with operating systems other than their primary
• Participates in product support (e.g. on call) independently
• Has a decent approach between getting the job done vs technical debt
• Understands agile development, could teach the ideas
• Can explain and communicate technically complicated and abstract topics to business and product teams effectively
• Willingness to put the needs of the team over their own
• Willingness to experiment with development processes with an open mind
• Legal authorization to work in the United States - Sponsorship will not be provided for this position
• Ability to travel to St. Louis headquarters up to 1 week per quarter

PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCES & SKILLS

• Has shipped multiple commercialized products
• Experience in related fields, e.g. customer support or data science
• Experience with functional programming languages
• Has an interest in the business, e.g. product viability and marketing

About our Business Unit

Comfort Control, a business unit of Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions, is headquartered in St. Louis, MO and is an industry leader in home energy management and comfort control. Our products monitor and control appliances that account for approximately 60% of the energy consumed in the average US household. By networking our products to the cloud, we are discovering new ways to help our customers reduce energy consumption, save money, and maintain comfort. And because our technology touches so much of the residential energy profile, our solutions are positioned to make a significant impact on our nation’s carbon footprint. If you want to be part of a collaborative, high energy, fast paced team, where your contributions can make a real impact on the world – you have just found the place!