Senior Software Engineer

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI?first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us

• Full Stack Ownership: Contribute across the entire software development lifecycle, from gathering user requirements and designing UI/UX solutions to developing robust backend APIs and ensuring seamless integration between front?end and back?end components.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and other engineering teams to translate user needs and business requirements into technical specifications and compelling product features.
• Performance & Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks in both frontend and backend systems, ensuring optimal responsiveness, scalability and efficiency of our applications.
• Code Quality & Standards: Write clean, maintainable and well?tested code for both UI and backend components, adhering to high coding standards and participating actively in code reviews.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning and innovation within the team.
• System Design: Participate in architectural discussions, contributing to the design of scalable, resilient and observable distributed systems.
• Troubleshooting & Support: Take ownership of issues from development to production, providing support and troubleshooting to ensure the stability and reliability of our services.
• Stay Current: Keep abreast of the latest UI/UX trends, frontend technologies and backend advancements, proactively recommending and implementing improvements.
• Explore Generative AI: Look for ways to leverage generative AI in your work and in our product, in truly useful ways.

• 5+ years of hands?on experience in full?stack software development, with a strong portfolio showcasing significant contributions to complex API and real?time data solutions, including streaming systems architecture.
• Expert Java skills applied to public?facing APIs with an end?user focus.
• Experience integrating UIs with complex data from service endpoints and working with SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems, and how to build scalable and resilient full?stack applications.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript and a leading frontend framework such as React, with experience in state management (Redux, Context API) and component?based architecture.
• Strong UI/UX design principles and experience creating intuitive user experiences.
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong testing skills for both frontend (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress) and backend.
• Excellent analytical, problem?solving and debugging skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Exceptional communication skills to collaborate effectively with product managers, designers and engineers, translating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Agile mindset, thriving in Scrum environments and delivering high?quality code iteratively.

• Experience with UI/UX design tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD for prototyping and collaboration.
• Familiarity with New Relic or other observability platforms.
• Experience with real?time streaming technologies such as Kafka.
• Contributions to open?source projects.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques for large?scale web applications.
• AI/ML experience.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

$152,000 $190,000 USD

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time?off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time?off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics.