MathWorks Web API Platform - Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

The MathWorks is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on an awesome team charged with evolving the MathWorks Web API Platform. You will participate in a highly cross-organizational team to create, design and enhance the MathWorks product Web API. Successful candidates will work on complex, meaningful software challenges that make a difference. Join our team, where you will work with a talented engineering team who share a passion for getting things done and delivering elegant and well crafted code and who are at the heart of MathWorks products’ evolution.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in the evolving development of MathWorks Web APIs platform, including designing, implementing and consulting on integrating authentication and identity systems, addressing versioning and evolution, and client SDKs
• Lead collaboration efforts across different business groups in our organization
• Construct software to run on and across architectural layers for sharing between platforms
• Create design specifications, participate in design discussions and code reviews
• Work with stakeholders to refine and negotiate product requirement specifications, functional specifications, and have a voice in directly contributing to product vision and direction
• Craft designs to then develop, debug, test, and support integrating MathWorks' products with various clients with an emphasis on scalability and performance
• Collaborate with documentation, support, QE and others

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• BS in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Must have 7+ years commercial software engineering experience
• Demonstrable experience designing, implementing, enhancing and supporting APIs.
• Strong demonstrable skills in software architecture, object oriented and messaging design
• Experience with run-time composable services and distributed systems required
• Experience with two or more of the following: Java, JavaScript, C#, C/C++
• Experience working in a commercial software product company
• Strong understanding of project cycles, software development environments, and source control techniques
• Strong self-motivation; strong written and oral communication skills
• Must enjoy dark roast coffee

Nice to Have:

• Experience in SaaS environment
• Experience in functional languages
• Experience with AMQP, SOAP/REST, JSON, ZeroMQ or similar
• Experience with OpenID, OAuth
• Experience with Ruby, Scala and/or Groovy
• Previous Agile experience

Every member of the MathWorks team contributes to delivering the software that impacts the things we all rely on in our daily lives. Think we’re exaggerating? Think again: look behind your cell phone, your car, the plane you fly on, the cutting edge medical technologies that changes lives, and the scientific advances that awe and amaze us, and you’ll find MATLAB and Simulink. Our customers are advancing the world’s knowledge of engineering and science. And we help them do it. That’s a special team to be a part of. All this happens on our growing Natick campus, where coffee, cookies and electric car hook-ups are readily available. Our core values drive our collaborative team meetings, our desire to continually improve and our love of asking “what can we do better?”