Description
Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration.
As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of software features within our microservices architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain software features and product improvements for backend services with guidance from senior team members.
- Contribute to distributed, highly available microservice architectures.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including design discussions, code reviews, and testing.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and observability by identifying and resolving technical issues.
- Leverage AI coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate your productivity and learning.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product management, and SRE/DevOps teams.
- Participate in incident resolution and learn from production issues through postmortems.
- Commit to continuous learning, code quality, and operational excellence.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent internship/project experience).
- Foundational knowledge of backend development and production environments.
- Solid understanding of software development and architecture concepts with a willingness to learn new technologies quickly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Java, Node.js, JavaScript, or Python.
- Exposure to web application frameworks and persistence technologies such as Spring, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Kafka.
- Familiarity with Git, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous delivery.
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., Codex, Cursor, Copilot).
- Eagerness to learn how to debug and resolve production issues.
- Ability to apply creative skills to complex problems.
- Flexible, thrives in diverse team environments, and communicates clearly and precisely.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous learning and quality results.