Staff Software Engineer

Black Duck Software Inc. helps organizations build secure high-quality software minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck a recognized pioneer in application security provides SAST SCA and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code open source components and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools services and expertise only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

About Black Duck Software:

Black Duck Software Inc. helps organizations build secure high-quality software minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck a recognized pioneer in application security provides SAST SCA and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code open-source components and application behaviour. With a combination of industry-leading tools services and expertise only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Summary of the role:

• We are looking for a staff engineer passionate about creating great products for customers cares about working in a vibrant team and is passionate about developing easy-to-use software that integrates well into a developers IDE.
• Our Desktop UI applications are the front end to Black Ducks state-of-the-art research products including Static Analysis and Software Composition Analysis.
• We are changing the way secure and quality software is delivered.
• You will be accountable for improving and extending the user interface experience that thousands of developers will use and helping drive the IDE plugin development for our next-generation IDE integrations.
• This will include supporting a variety of IDEs such as Visual Studio IntelliJ and Eclipse.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a team of 5 software developers
• Help the team work effectively and efficiently in producing products for our customers
• Fostering a collaborative culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Design Implement and drive features for the Code Sight plug-ins for multiple IDEs on supported platforms (Windows macOS Linux)
• Collaborate and align with the North American team to build product features
• Learn follow and enhance overall architecture that meets strategic goals and roadmaps
• Promote ideas and solicit input from team members on innovation technology quality and productivity.
• Promote great design reliability and testability to improve the rate of development of new products and minimize the cost of ongoing support of new and existing products.
• Use agile software development practices to ensure ongoing quality improvement to products and processes

Requirements:

• Requires a bachelors degree and 5 years of experience in a software developer role
• Goal-oriented developer who anticipates the implications of situations and takes appropriate action as needed and prepare for contingencies
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects/tasks
• Passionate about creating an exceptional user experience
• 5 years experience in C# and/or Java
• Experienced in software architecture/design and writing technical specifications
• Excellent object-oriented development and development testing skills
• Comfortable using command line tools and shell scripting
• Self-motivated with a track record of regular learning
• Exposure to prompt engineering and AI Vibe Coding

Nice to Have:

• Visual Studio Eclipse and/or IntelliJ plugin development experience
• Background in user interface technologies and design
• Experience using WPF SWT Swing or Web-Services technologies
• Experience with Windows Mac and Linux platforms
• Experience in GoLang

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex gender preference national origin age disability or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal addition Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.