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Software Developer III

State College, PA or Remote

Want to be part of a team that keeps real-time weather alerts and observations flowing reliably to hundreds of millions of people? We are looking for a Software Developer III who displays a deep interest in and passion for backend architecture, mentorship, and problem solving; someone who likes to own real-time systems end to end and help other engineers grow. Reporting directly to the Manager, Data Engineering, this position will be responsible for leading the design and development of backend software that processes real-time weather data flows — including alerts, observations, and AccuWeather Alerts — powering AccuWeather's consumer and enterprise products. Serving as a software development expert, you will build new processing services and workflows to improve the reliability and scalability of our real-time weather platforms, while owning monitoring and data quality standards for the systems you lead. You will demonstrate expert skill across relational databases, functional programming, and cloud technologies, mentor less experienced developers, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders in an Agile-based environment, to deliver best of breed real-time infrastructure that caters to a global audience.

We are open to hiring candidates to work from our global headquarters in State College, PA, USA, or remotely.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex backend software processors that ingest, validate, transform, and distribute real-time weather data.

· Own end-to-end backend data flows from source system through validation to production database, including monitoring, operational efficiency, and incident response.

· Design and implement new processing capabilities and enhance existing processors to support new weather data providers, data formats, business requirements, and product features.

· Apply advanced backend and software development skills to build data processing software that's easily tested, deployed, and monitored.

· Own design and implementation of database schemas and supporting SQL objects used by backend processing applications.

· Define the reliability, performance, and scalability bar for backend processing software in your domain, and hold new development to it

· Drive technical alignment across software engineers, data operations, product managers, and business stakeholders on the approach for complex processing solutions, resolving disagreements on technical direction.

· Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software defects, production issues, and operational incidents affecting weather data processing systems.

· Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to other software developers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices.

· Mentor less experienced Software Developers in relational schema design and backend data processing practices.

· Define documentation standards for software components, processing workflows, and operational procedures, ensuring the team's collective knowledge stays current and usable without you in the room.

· Evaluate emerging technologies and development practices for team-wide adoption, making the call on what gets brought into the processing platform and what doesn't.

· Contribute to technical planning and the continuous improvement of development processes, quality assurance practices, and team workflows.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

· Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 5+ years of experience designing and developing backend software or distributed systems.

- Advanced experience developing software using Scala or Java, with experience applying functional programming concepts.

- Expertise in developing and deploying applications in cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

- Deep experience with relational database architecture, including schema design, SQL, and performance optimization at scale.

- Proven experience architecting solutions for structured and semi-structured data formats such as XML and JSON, RESTful APIs, and regular expressions, across multiple external data providers.

- Experience leading software design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.

· Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience designing or developing event-driven, distributed, or message-based systems.

- Experience working with weather, environmental, geospatial, or other Earth science data.

- Experience integrating data from multiple external providers or APIs.

- Proficiency with Microsoft SQL Server.

- Proficiency developing applications on Microsoft Azure.

- Experience providing technical guidance to other software developers.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development environment.

· Skills & Competencies

- Communicates at a high level across verbal and written communication with internal and external teams; leading training and informational sessions.

- Proficiency and demonstrated experience in communicating technical concepts, software designs, and data processing workflows to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex technical challenges and develop effective software solutions.

- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, including the ability to investigate and resolve complex production issues.

- Ability to provide technical guidance and share knowledge with other team members.

 

ABOUT ACCUWEATHER

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs..

 

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender

identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEO is the Law poster here and its supplement here. The pay transparency policy is available here.

AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

 

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