Why should I Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help organizations build responsible, secure, high-quality code quickly and systematically. We build solutions that don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we fix problems at the source – source code, to be specific.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. We believe team members should have the opportunity to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: provide solutions that deliver Clean Code.
The impact you can have
SonarQube for IDE is an advanced plugin designed for leading Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to help developers identify and remediate code quality and security issues. By performing real-time analysis and highlighting potential problems, this tool integrates seamlessly with SonarQube Server and SonarQube Cloud, providing a comprehensive development experience.
We are seeking a versatile software developer with a strong focus on Java to join our dynamic IDE Experience squad. In this role, you will contribute to enhancing various editions of SonarQube for IDE (including Eclipse, VSCode, and IntelliJ). Your objective will be to make SonarQube for IDE an indispensable tool for developers across all IDE platforms.
On a daily basis, you will
- Join the IDE squad responsible for the development of the SonarQube for IDE extensions. Your responsibilities will include contributing to specifications, writing code and tests, reviewing peers’ code, validating features, and managing releases.
- Be a key contributor to an open-source tool that is trusted and loved by developers worldwide.
- Become an expert in pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with the most popular IDE extensibility SDKs.
- Utilize the power of SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server within the IDE to ensure an exceptional developer experience.
- Contribute to the CI pipeline that supports the development and release processes of SonarQube for IDE.
- Engage proactively with the open-source community, other SonarSourcers, and the support team to incorporate their feedback.
- Foster continuous improvement within your squad by participating in retrospectives, sharing your technical expertise, and taking on a fair share of the team’s workload.
The skills you will demonstrate
- Strong track record in software development, particularly with Java.
- Expertise in developing with clean code principles and best practices.
- Excellent engineering skills with a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals.
- Fluency in source code quality practices, including unit and functional tests, CI/CD, and code reviews.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and principles.
- Comfortable navigating change and ambiguity.
- Self-confidence to challenge the status quo and openness to being challenged.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Nice to have
- A keen interest in the Eclipse platform.
- Experience developing IDE extensions.
- Experience with frontend/UI development.
- Experience using and configuring static analyzers as part of the development process.
Why you will love it here:
• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness – and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). We believe that the best idea wins and everyone has a voice.
• We believe that great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid-back while still being passionate leaders in our domains. Our 550+ SonarSourcers from 33 different nationalities can relate!
• We embrace work-life balance. It is important to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This is why we have a flexible work policy that includes remote and in-office hybrid work (minimum three days a week in the office - Monday/Tuesday/Thursday).
• We have a growth mindset. We love to learn and believe that continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are a must, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
We prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At Sonar, we are a global workforce and recognize the value of different backgrounds, and global cultures.
We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the clear results of a comprehensive background check conducted prior to the start date.
Please note that applications submitted through agencies or third-party recruiters will not be considered.
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What We Do
Software-driven digital innovation is essential for competing in today's market, and the foundation of this innovation is code. However, there are widespread cracks in this foundation – lines of bad, insecure, and poorly written code – that manifests into tech debt, security incidents, and availability issues. With Sonar, developers and organizations are empowered to create quality, secure code confidently, whether written by humans or generated with AI.
The Sonar solution, SonarQube, helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team or genAI—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software.
At Sonar, we are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do.
Rooted in the open-source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Annecy, France; Bochum, Germany, London, England; and Singapore. The company is rapidly growing with over 600 employees!
Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!
Why Work With Us
We are a product-first company, all while maintaining a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.
