Full Stack Engineer

We are looking for a software developer to join Verisign in our Fribourg office.

An ideal candidate should be fluent in Java and have prior experience in full-stack software engineering. Exposure to additional languages and technologies (bash, python, docker, git, jenkins) are advantageous. From the engineering side, we seek a strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including core Computer Science concepts, as well as hands-on problem-solving experience building software systems. Obtaining required competencies often implies an equivalent of a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years of hands-on software development work experience.

The candidate will be involved in all aspects of product development including ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution. This will usually imply cross-team collaboration with Product, Engineering, Security and Operations. The candidate is expected to provide technical contributions and work collaboratively with other team members.

Products

• The team has complete engineering ownership of three customer-facing web applications: Verisign Account Manager (VAC), Verisign Content Management System (VCMS) and Customer Notification System (CNS).
• Verisign Account Manager is a web application for account management of Verisign registrar customers.
• Verisign Content Management System is a custom content management platform consisting of a front-end for content creation and administration and a back-end exposing a set of API endpoints. In addition to the mentioned VCMS front-end, these API endpoints are consumed by several other customer-facing portals offered by Verisign.
• Customer Notification System enables creating automated maintenance notices about upcoming outages to Registry system which will be sent periodically to ICANN and our Registrar Customers.
• The business logic layer of both applications is implemented with React, Java Spring Boot. VCMS and CNS relies on PostgreSQL for data persistence layer.

Team

• Our small team possesses complete engineering ownership over three products.
• In terms of the process, we rely on Scrum to structure our work, with tickets prioritized in Jira. Our code is located on internal GitHub; we follow Git Flow with pull request code reviews and extensive automation. For continuous delivery, we use Jenkins with pipelines and our product deployments are automated with Terraform and Ansible. We do builds for each codebase change as well as nightly builds and have fully implemented Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
• While fluent in Java, it is beneficial if the candidate has experience working with some of the mentioned tools. Others can be learned as needed.

Skills

Required

• 5+ year's software development experience
• Fluent in Java
• Full-stack development experience (2+ years): backend (Web, REST), frontend (React, HTML, CSS, JS)
• Frameworks: Spring and Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Test Automation: Unit/Integration/UI testing
• Data Layer: SQL, relational Databases, postgres
• OS: Familiarity with UNIX-like operating systems
• Proficiency in both written and spoken English is required

Advantageous

• Methodology: Scrum
• Scripting: bash, python
• Containerization: docker
• CI/CD/CM: git, jenkins, gradle
• Deployment Automation: Ansible, terraform
• Experience with Cloud Platform: Kubernetes, AWS

Benefits

• Engineering quality is a priority aligned with the company mission (for real)
• Positive multi-cultural collaboration spirit within and across teams
• Engineering ownership of a multiple customer-facing products
• Strong influence over the product and team direction
• Competitive compensation package

Location of our office

Fribourg is a historic city in Switzerland with one of the largest medieval towns preserved in Europe. Multiple languages and cultures intermix here, the city has a bilingual status, symbolically bridging Latin and Germanic cultures.

Fribourg enjoys a convenient central location with Bern and Lausanne in a commute distance reachable by a direct train or highway. Direct trains to three cities with international airports, namely Geneva, Zurich, and Basel are available for those who enjoy travel. The Verisign office is located in Villars-sur-Glâne, next to the A12 highway exit, ten minutes from the Fribourg train station.

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer.