Ancestry

Ancestry

Senior Software Engineer

Draper, UT · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$135kDetected 20 days ago
JavaCode ReviewGitMySQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDDevOpsRESTAI OrchestrationBioinformatics

About the role

  • About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person's story is important.
  • Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories.
  • We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

Responsibilities

  • Work with an accomplished and collaborative team to develop microservices that serve millions of requests per second and operate in a large cloud environment
  • Help build the next generation of services at Ancestry
  • As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of

Requirements

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related field required
  • Proficient in Java or JVM languages with 5+ years of experience in an enterprise environment
  • You are a technical orchestrator who leverages AI tooling and agents to produce software, focusing your expertise on directing the work, reviewing the output, and ensuring architectural quality.
  • Experience in large sharded database environments and MySQL (Aurora)
  • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure as code tool
  • Experience with SCM/DevOps tools such as GIT, Harness build and deployment automation with Harness and CI/CD
  • Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23).

Nice to have

  • Experience with operating in and understanding AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP cloud environments (Fargate, Aurora, MSK, EC2)

Compensation

  • Ancestry values pay transparency and equity.
  • As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, we are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $120,000 - $135,000 with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision.
  • Actual salary will depend on location and experience.
  • We will provide detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.

Company info

  • Develop, maintain and deploy backend functionality to support the evolving needs of Ancestry customers in the Ancestry Member Trees domain

Visa & Work Authorization

  • gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable

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