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Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Applies knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate software applications, services, and enterprise solutions.
Develops and supports modern full-stack applications using front-end and back-end technologies.
Designs, develops, and maintains APIs, microservices, and integration services supporting enterprise platforms.
Develops and supports scalable data pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, validation, indexing, and analytics.
Implements and maintains solutions leveraging MongoDB, Elasticsearch and relational database technologies.
Contributes to developing data intensive applications using databases like Clickhouse and/or Cloud databases.
Contributes to the design and development of AI-enabled applications, intelligent search capabilities, and future Generative AI initiatives.
Collaborates with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
Participates in platform modernization initiatives including automation, architectural improvements and migration of legacy applications.
Performs troubleshooting, root cause analysis, monitoring, and issue resolution across production applications and data platforms.
Shares ownership of operational support, application maintenance and continuous service improvement activities.
Participates in design reviews, code reviews, testing, deployment activities and release management processes.
Follows software engineering best practices to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and reliable.
Learns and adopts emerging technologies, frameworks and AI capabilities to drive innovation and improve business outcomes.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
2+ years of experience in software development, data engineering, application development, or related technical roles.
OR
4+ years of relevant work experience without a Bachelor's degree.
2+ years of experience with application development using Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript or similar programming languages.
Experience building or supporting enterprise software applications and services.
Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms and design principles.
Preferred Qualifications
2+ years of experience with full-stack application development using React, Angular, Node.js, or similar frameworks.
Experience developing and supporting data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data integration solutions.
Experience with MongoDB and NoSQL database technologies.
Experience with Elasticsearch, enterprise search systems, indexing strategies or analytics platforms.
Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
Experience developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed applications.
Knowledge of event-driven architectures, messaging systems or streaming platforms such as Kafka.
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps methodologies.
Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and application-support skills.
Ability to balance development responsibilities with operational support ownership.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills.
Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn emerging technologies and contribute to innovation initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of IT-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems).
- OR
- 5+ years of IT-relevant work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.
- 3+ years of any combination of academic or work experience with Full-stack Application Development (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- 1+ year of any combination of academic or work experience with Data Structures, algorithms, and data stores.
Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of the general IT-related work experience.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits
$51.90 - $77.90
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
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