Software Development Engineer II

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about.

You will:

• Build a platform that serves the real-time monitoring needs of our customers
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for important systems and delivering high availability and performance
• Design complex high-performance backend services using Java using Spring Boot
• Work on features and improve existing systems
• Evaluate new technologies, create proof of concepts, and discuss architecture
• Develop technical specifications and documentation
• Debug production issues and help maintain existing code
• Participate in on-call rotations

You have:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 5+ years of core Java experience using Spring Boot– Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns
• Experience in Kubernetes, GCP, and databases (MySQL and Google FireStore)
• Experience with GitlabCI, FluxCD, Jenkins, and TeamCity.
• Experience debugging/testing applications
• Experience building RESTful microservices
• Familiar with DevOps for deploying applications from Dev to Production environments and service monitoring tools like Grafana, and Kibana.
• Experience in coordination with stakeholders and cross-team/ -departments and ability to succeed in a largely virtual organization, as well as knowledge and experience with agile values, principles, and methodologies (e.g., based on SCRUM or Kanban).
• Curiosity, eagerness to get things done and you are driven to further develop yourself. You enjoy being challenged and have fun while doing your job. You are a strong communicator with very good written and verbal English skills.

Benefits:

• Time away: Vacation, public holidays and care days.
• Financial: Pension, deferred pension and ESPP.
• Family: Parental leave.
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: Exclusive perks and discounts.

Why you’ll love working here:

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace.

Belonging at LivePerson:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.