SENIOR DEVELOPER

About the Team

The Cloud and Platform Team in SAS provides various capabilities to enable our product teams to build cloud-native solutions with great developer experience and provide them a platform to innovate. We support our product teams who are organized in value streams with several products. The Cloud and Platform Team is segregated into several sub-teams which focus on different areas.

About the Role

In Developer Experience (DevEx) Team, which is one of the sub-teams in The Cloud and Platform Team, you will lead and shape our Developer Experience initiatives. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the productivity and satisfaction of our product teams. You will be responsible for crafting strategies, implementing best practices, and driving continuous improvement in our developer-facing processes and tools. You will be driving and implementing DevOps, security practices in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to help our product teams to achieve agility in development, autonomy & trust, faster time to market and build software engineering culture.

You will play a key role in empowering our product teams, improving the developer experience, and fostering a software engineering culture. 
 

Challenges you will work on:

•    Develop and manage our internal developer platform (IDP) to provide a self-service platform for developers to manage their services and applications, documentation, templates to follow paved path and best practices.
•    Manage and implement developer tooling to standardize the ways of working and improve the developer experience and productivity with lifecycle management of the tools including licenses, user management etc.
•    Drive and build inner-source culture and encourage product teams to contribute to Builder’s Library (Reference implementations & guidelines - By developers for developers).
•    Manage and facilitate Tech Radar discussions and keep the tech radar up to date with requirements from the tech community.
•    Foster an engineering culture among our developers by organizing events like Tech Talks and Hackathons (SAS HAX) for knowledge sharing and networking.
•    Cross collaborates with product teams to share best practices on testing methodologies, and quality assurance processes to ensure the highest quality in software development.
•    Ensure that security best practices are integrated into the development process and provide guidance on writing secure code.
•    Gather feedback from developers, analyze data, and work with teams to make data-driven improvements to the developer experience. 
•    Drive and develop training programs and workshops to empower our developers with the skills and knowledge along with the tech community.
•    Mentor and coach juniors technically and develop them.

Who you are:

•    You have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering or relevant experience. 
•    You have a strong background in software development with a good understanding of DevOps and Security practices. Experience in a Developer Experience, Developer advocate or similar roles will be preferred.
•    You have great communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, developers and stakeholders. 
•    You have strong problem-solving abilities and a data-driven mindset. You are pro-active, willing to learn new skills and suggest improvements.
•    You can prioritize and drive initiatives in coordination with the team members and stakeholders.
•    You are a professional with a positive attitude and a team player, helping and coaching team members.
•    You are passionate about improving the developer experience and a drive to stay current with industry trends.
•    You are willing to participate in OnCall rotation (once a week every two months).
 

What we offer:

•    Located at SAS head office in Frösundavik, Stockholm with access to gym, restaurant, café etc. along with flexibility to work remotely.
•    SAS has an attractive travel offering to all employees with discounted airline tickets for you, your family and friends to travel the world at great prices.
•    Good pension scheme and standard benefits as part of collective agreement (Kollektivavtal).
•    Opportunity to be a part of digitalization and modernizing our IT landscape journey with cloud native tech stack and modern practices.
•    Opportunities for professional development in an international fast-paced working environment.

Note: Deadline for application: 31st of May 2024.
 

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