Proofpoint is seeking a highly motivated Software Engineer to deliver high quality, innovative software solutions against an ambitious product roadmap. The successful candidate will enhance their skills and experience by working closely with local Engineers in Belfast, global Product Management, and staff based in our Silicon Valley headquarters, as part of an Agile team driving rapid growth through high-quality, on-time Feature releases that meet and exceed the expectations of our customers.
Your day-to-day
- Developing against a complex platform, based on a wide range of technologies.
- Taking ownership of key areas of a business-critical SaaS product running on Linux.
- Contributing to and promoting the delivery of high quality, testable software from requirements analysis through to acceptance testing.
- Responding effectively and accurately to the needs of stakeholders, including Product Management, Support and QA.
What you bring to the team
- Significant development experience, ideally in a product environment.
- Expertise in a range of languages, including two or more of:
- Java (or other JVM based language)
- PHP
- Javascript/JQuery
- Perl
- C/C++
- Ability to switch smoothly between back-end and front-end development.
- A track record for delivering high performance, scalable software.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Exposure to developing on Linux.
- Good communication skills.
Desirable:
- Exposure to REST/JSON based APIs.
- Exposure to SaaS-based product delivery ideally using AWS.
- Experience working as part of an agile software development team.
- In depth knowledge of email technology, including MTAs (e.g. Postfix), MX records and SMTP.
- Experience of parsing and/or manipulating MIME messages in any language.
