SonarLint - Java Developer

Job content

SonarSource provides world-class solutions for continuous code quality. Our open-source and commercial products (SonarLint, SonarCloud, SonarQube) help developers and organizations of all sizes to manage the quality & security of their code, and ultimately deliver better software. SonarSource solutions support development in 25+ programming languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, COBOL and many more. With over 3,000 customers including eBay, Thales, BMW and used by more than 120,000 organizations globally, SonarSource products are the preferred and most trusted solutions on the market.

The impact you can have

SonarLint is a plugin for popular IDEs including IntelliJ, Eclipse and VSCode, with the aim to help developers fix code quality and security issues before they exist by analyzing and highlighting issues on the fly as you code. In addition, SonarLint integrates with our server products SonarQube and SonarCloud to further enhance the development experience.

Our team is looking for a talented Java developer passionate about creating great products.

Your mission is to help the team make SonarLint a tool all developers would love to use in their IDE.

On a daily basis, you will

Develop SonarLint for IntelliJ, Eclipse or VSCode (add new features, adapt to new versions of IDE, improve performance …)

Ensure that our analyzers provide a great developer experience in the IDE

Ensure SonarLint integrates well with SonarCloud and SonarQube

At team level, you will

Help define the team’s short and long term goals

Collaborate with Product Managers on defining new features and give your input on product functionality and priorities

Engage with the Open-Source community, other SonarSourcers and the Support team and integrate their feedback

Improve your team: perform design and code reviews, challenge the status quo, improve processes, share technical knowledge

The skills you will demonstrate

Ability to develop in Java with clean code

Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals

Fluency in source code quality: tests (unit and functional), CI/CD, code reviews

Experience with agile practices and principles

Comfortable in dealing with change

Leadership; you take initiative and demonstrate your ability to lead a subject from beginning to end

Self-confident to challenge the status quo as well as to be challenged

You are fluent in English, both written and spoken

Nice to have

Experience with developing Eclipse and/or IntelliJ and/or VSCode extensions

Experience with TypeScript

Experience with Kotlin

Experience using and configuring static analyzers as part of the development process

Office location

Our main office is located in Geneva, Switzerland, with additional offices in Annecy, France and Bochum, Germany. This position is also available remotely, as long as there is a substantial overlap with the Geneva workday (i.e. available between Central European Time +/- 2 hours). Currently, half of the team is based in the Geneva office and the other half is remote.

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Why you will love it here

Safe work culture: we value respect, kindness, and the right to fail.

Flexible hours: we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, this is why some people prefer to work from home one day per week.

Great people: we value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid back. Still, that does not prevent us to be passionate leaders in our domains. Our 200+ SonarSourcers from 27 different nationalities can relate!

Work-life balance: keeping a healthy work-life balance is important while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.

Always keep learning: in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is a must, and we’re happy to help our team to acquire them.

What we do

SonarSource was started by a team of developers that wanted to change the way code is built in an agile development process. The company was created to develop the open-source tool SonarQube, which is now the standard in code quality management with over 190,000 instances deployed today. Every day we are focused on solving developers’ next big problem.

Who we are

At SonarSource we believe in people, excellence, and delivery. We’re a team of problem solvers and overachievers who seek out others who are also passionate and relentless in their respective missions. We want to work with people who are ready to fasten their seat belts and be part of an incredible ride. We work hard not because we’re told to, but because we genuinely love what we do and do what we love. If there’s one main message we want you to remember about us, it’s that we push others to be best in class at whatever they do: choose your battle, innovate, take risks, and lead change. Join us; we’ll be smarter and stronger together.