Senior Software Engineer — Cloud Services & API Platform; C#​/Azure Track

Senior Software Engineer

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees.

Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.

Learn about our company culture directly from our team.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing and evolving our software platform. You will design and develop cloud-based APIs and services that support next-generation engineering and design applications for the building industry.

We are actively investing in the transformation of our software platform from traditional desktop applications toward modern cloud-based services and APIs hosted in Microsoft Azure. This role offers the opportunity to influence technical direction, mentor team members, and grow into a Technical Lead position as our platform modernization efforts expand.

What You'll Be Doing (% of Time):

• Design, develop, and support scalable cloud-native services and APIs using C# and ASP.NET Core. (30%)
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to modernize existing desktop application functionality into service-oriented and cloud-hosted solutions. (20%)
• Design and implement secure, observable, and resilient distributed systems leveraging Azure cloud technologies. (15%)
• Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, and architecture reviews while promoting engineering best practices. (10%)
• Develop automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes to improve software quality and delivery velocity. (10%)
• Participate in Agile planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. (10%)
• Mentor team members and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards and development practices. (5%)

Desired

Skills and Experience:

If you can do everything listed above, you've got what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET (ASP.NET Core)
• Experience building RESTful APIs and distributed services
• Experience designing scalable client-server or cloud-native applications
• Experience with relational databases and data modeling (T-SQL / Azure SQL)
• Experience implementing automated testing strategies (unit, integration)
• Experience with Git-based source control workflows
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum software development environments
• Strong system design, debugging, and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to mentor or guide other engineers
• Microsoft Azure services:
  App Services, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Storage, Application Insights, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Managed Identity
• Microservice and service-oriented architecture design patterns
• Event-driven systems and messaging patterns (Azure Service Bus / Event Grid)
• CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions
• Containerization technologies:
  Docker and Kubernetes (AKS)
• Observability and monitoring practices (Application Insights / Open Telemetry / structured logging)
• OpenAPI / Swagger API documentation
• Authentication and authorization using OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and Microsoft Entra
• Experience modernizing legacy desktop or monolithic applications
• WPF or desktop application development (C++/C#)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Bicep / ARM)
• Building industry software experience is a plus

Physical Requirements and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear, and sometimes walk and stand. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 25 lbs.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers/scanners, etc. are frequently used.

Travel:

This position requires domestic travel up to 5%-10% of the time.

Work Status &

Location:

This full-time, exempt position is located in Plano, TX.

Relocation:

Relocation is not available for this position.

Pay:

$107,500 - $182,800 / year

Rewards at Simpson Strong-Tie:

We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and…