Software Engineer, PowerMTA

Company: SparkPost
Location: Columbia
Posted on: February 16, 2020

Job Description:

SparkPost is the world's#1 email and email analytics company, trusted by customers like Zillow,The New York Times, Booking.com, Ebates and Zynga to dramatically increase email performance. SparkPost sends more than 37% of the world's business to business and business to consumer email, more than 5 trillion messages a year. SparkPost's unmatched data footprint and email intelligence platform help leading enterprises break through the email noise to drive top-line results. PowerMTA, has a global footprint, with thousands of installations in more than 51 countries.

PowerMTA offers enterprise email senders superior performance and advanced features to proactively manage their sender reputations.

We are currently seeking a mid-level to senior-level Software Engineer to join our team. Their job responsibilities will include:

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• Feature Enhancements - defining technical specifications and producing production-quality implementation including positive and negative test cases.
  
• Testing - augmenting the automated test suite to guarantee test coverage on new and existing features
  
• Debugging - analyzing and fixing bugs originating from customer support tickets and internally produced bug reports. Solve issues in a timely manner. Analyze system behavior and performance issues, develop test cases to reproduce issues and develop fixes for the product to address these issues.
  
• Documentation - ensuring documentation and product feature coherency
  
  
  The ideal candidate must be someone who takes pride in writing high quality code, is creative, organized and detail oriented. In addition, they must demonstrate the following technical skills and experience:
  
  
  
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  • Building and deploying high quality, highly reliable enterprise software products in a team environment.
    
  • Strong C++ programming skills.
    
  • Multi-threaded programming techniques.
    
  • Outstanding analytical and troubleshooting skills.
    
  • Understanding of network protocols and network programming.
    
  • Troubleshooting using system tracing tools and debuggers.
    
  • SMTP and other email-related protocol experience are a very strong plus.
    
  • Node.js and React skills are a plus.
    
    Here are just a few perks we offer:
    
    
    
    
    
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    • Flexible hours (Work from Home on Friday)
    • Outstanding benefits
    • Hackathons
    • Team Building activities
    • Stocked kitchen and catered lunch twice a week
    • Open Floor Plan
    • Ping Pong Tables, Shuffleboard, Trivia Nights
    • Equipment includes MacBook Pro
    • Distributed team centered on our engineering office in Columbia, MD
      

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