Software Engineer (Remote)

Overview

Frontdoor is a company that’s obsessed with taking the hassle out of owning a home. With services powered by people and enabled by technology, it is the parent company of four home service plan brands: American Home Shield, HSA, Landmark and OneGuard, as well as ProConnect, an on-demand membership service for home repairs and maintenance, and Streem, a technology company that enables businesses to serve customers through an enhanced augmented reality, computer vision and machine learning platform. Frontdoor serves 2.2 million customers across the U.S. through a network of approximately 17,000 pre-qualified contractor firms that employ an estimated 60,000 technicians. The company’s customizable home service plans help customers protect and maintain their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns of essential home systems and appliances. With 50 years of home services experience, the company responds to over four million service requests annually. For details, visit frontdoorhome.com.

Responsibilities

Summary:

Our Software Engineers are product focused, giving them the opportunity to work on a product and understand the layers of the software stack. Work includes documentation, automated testing, debugging, working with algorithms and data structures, coding, design, system performance scaling, and problem solving for basic software programs. Responsibilities also include contributing to the completion of projects under moderate supervision.

Responsibilities:

• Write documentation and automated tests for code to be written.

• Implement functionality for automated tests that will successfully pass and meet coding standards.

• Debug production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans.

• Optimize performance of existing implementations.

• Help debug multiple systems or layers through isolating issues in data structures with multiple factors, while understanding the reasons for memory leaks. Read and interpret logs.

• Simplify solutions in existing implementations.

• Assist with the optimization of code when given pointers, identify critical areas to inspect for performance optimization; and program independently.

• Identify and write documents that refer to design patterns providing clarity to readers.

• Write flowcharts and state-machine for small module implementations.

• Interpret basic UML/Sequence diagrams.

• Create test harness to drive performance test runs in both production and local setups.

• Break down problems that are well-defined and larger in scope.

• May include other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements:

High school diploma or equivalent required, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred

Minimum Experience required: 2+years product development experience

Required Skills:

• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, such as data structures, (trees, graphs, hash tables); understanding of functioning and implementation of basic algorithms, such as sorts, searching, and the capability to explain performance characteristics using Big-O Notations.

• Capability to debug moderately complex problems and analyze logs in production systems and to read existing code.

• Understanding of various data storage options, such as relational, no-SQL, etc.

• Scripting skill in Shell, Python, or Ruby

• Must have Golang experience, .Net is a nice to have

• Experience in following a defined process and understanding of how the process helps in day to day job

• Ability to be on call on a rotating basis for the services owned by the team.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in developing products in an Agile development environment

• Experience working in a CI/CD environment

• Understanding of Git and development activities such as merge and conflict resolution of code

• Understanding and experience in Docker, Kubernets, and AWS cloud services

Other/State Specific

This role pays between $80,000 to $ 100k , and your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, responsibilities, experience, and location.

At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives. Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more.

Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.

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Job Locations US

ID 2025-3627

Category Engineering

Type Full Time

Company AHS American Home Shield Corp