Senior Software Engineer

Austin - Texas - United States

Technology / Employee: Full Time / Hybrid

Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet unlocks the power of data through analytics, creating a better tomorrow. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture and accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our 6,000+ global team members are passionate about what we do. We are dedicated to helping clients turn uncertainty into confidence, risk into opportunity and potential into prosperity. Bold and diverse thinkers are always welcome. Come join us!

Team Overview

Our D&B Hoovers team helps customers prospect and research our data and analyze and visualize their data through modern UI experiences and powerful backend systems. We build complex search solutions on top of scalable architectures that allow us to support hundreds of thousands of users and large data sets. We're working hard to build the most advanced set of business data and analytics in the market. We move fast and take great pride in what we're building. If you love solving hard data problems, working with great teams, functional programming, and building scalable software using modern technologies like Scala, Elasticsearch and Akka, we want to talk with you.

The Role

The Hoovers team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build and scale our search platform. This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to create innovative solutions in a highly visible role where analytical skills, innovative thinking, and a data at scale background can be put to excellent use on the most impactful projects!

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering product features with minimal direction while working with product managers to clearly understand functional and non-functional requirements.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable software using Scala, Akka, and related technologies.
• Work in a team of Software Engineers and business partners to ensure that the solutions meet the business objectives.
• Model analytical data in a searchable and scalable way.
• Build and maintain Unit and Integration tests.
• Collaborate with other team members to improve development practices.
• Create new ways of pivoting client data with D&B's rich datasets.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics.
• 5+ years of proven software systems design and delivery.
• Advanced programming skills and comfort with multiple languages.
• Experience working in a language that incorporates at least some functional features such as C#, Rust, modern Java, or Haskell.
• Significant experience working with relational databases. Storing and querying relational data should be second nature to you, including joining and grouping. You should understand what normalization is and why denormalization is sometimes the right answer.
• High level understanding of fundamental computer science concepts such as the practical application of data structures and algorithmic complexity.
• Agile development experience. Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Energy and passion for software development and emerging technologies.

Really Great to Have:

• Real-world experience with Large Language Models
• Real-world experience with Elasticsearch outside.
• Experience with Akka and Akka Streams. Know what Pekko is.
• Experience with very large datasets (hundreds of millions to tens of billions of records), especially if you've used highly concurrent systems like Spark or Hadoop to analyze data.

Benefits We Offer

Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.

Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.

Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.

Education assistance and extensive training resources.

Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.

Competitive 401k with company matching.

Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.

Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.

Learn more about our benefits.