Software Engineer II - Verification

Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of runtime security technology that enables vulnerability detection and protection against cyberattacks heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented agent-based instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate security assessments and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities prevent data breaches and secure the entire enterprise from development to operations to production.

About the Position

Contrast is seeking a mid-level software engineer to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a background building highly scalable Java backends using Spring and MySQL hosted in AWS. You will join a small team building a suite of verification tools that will improve the accuracy of Contrast’s findings by automatically detecting when vulnerabilities have been resolved saving our customers time by allowing them to focus on active high-confidence findings. In this role you will gain experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle with a heavy focus on development testing and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performant backends using Java Spring MySQL ActiveMQ and Kubernetes.

• Constantly collaborate with teammates in the form of pair programming design reviews and pull requests.

• Work closely with our product managers security researchers and customer-facing field teams on each feature and improvement.

• Help provide support for the system including running deployments monitoring production systems and triaging bug reports from our world-class support team.

Qualifications

• You have at least 3-5 years of experience building modern scalable and high-performing backend web applications.

• You have strong communication skills. You ask questions let others know when you need help and tell others what you need.

• You have experience working with Java / Spring or similar to design and implement robust and scalable APIs.

• You are proficient with MySQL or similar databases.

• You have experience or interest in learning about operating software in AWS-hosted Docker environments.

• You're a problem solver. You believe the best work is the result of finding the simplest solution to complex challenges.

• Your code is clean your designs are elegant and you are constantly refactoring.

• You own your work. Whether a nasty bug or an awesome feature you put your name on every line of code.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.