Sr Software Engineer (Secure Application Development)

About Nintendo of America: From the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System™ more than 30 years ago, Nintendo’s mission has been to create smiles through unique entertainment experiences. Here at Nintendo of America Inc., we deliver on this mission by partnering closely with Nintendo Co., Ltd., to bring Nintendo’s iconic and cherished franchises including Mario™, Donkey Kong™, The Legend of Zelda™, Metroid™, Animal Crossing™, Pikmin™ and Splatoon™ across the Americas through our video games, hardware systems, and collaborations with partners on a range of other entertainment initiatives like feature films and theme parks.

Based in Redmond, Washington, Nintendo of America serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Americas. We are an equal opportunity employer offering a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, and the diverse consumers and communities we call home. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at https://www.nintendo.com/. 

Job Summary: This role is part of the IT: Consumer Online & Publishing department at Nintendo of America (NOA) and acts as the direct contributor and key technology driver with a focus on the efforts and technologies that make up the global NOA product publishing pipeline (aka 3PT, Nintendo Developer Portal). The senior-level position will directly contribute to the sustainment and enhancement of the 3PT application portfolio, will help ensure technical design integrity across efforts, collaborate on application architectural approaches and ensure the veracity of software delivery estimates. This position will collaborate extensively with hosting teams, QA teams, project management & NCL to define & improve the product. Find out more at https://developer.nintendo.com/

Description of Duties:

• Develops and modifies core application and development features of our global publishing pipeline, addressing functional, performance, security, quality, operations, and monitoring needs.


• Identifies, troubleshoots, and resolves issues.


• Documents all change through appropriate change control, writing technical documentation such as API documentation and runbooks.


• Maintains existing global publishing pipeline by adding/updating features, addressing live-site issues, improving reliability, etc.


• Understanding our business requirements and translating them into technical tasks


• Participate in architecting and designing innovative solutions.


• Works with multiple teams, providing a large impact across the entire organization.


• Mentors more junior colleagues, potentially providing instruction (e.g. functioning as a team lead).


• Work with infrastructure as code (IaC) to deploy our cloud (AWS) services.


• Maintain legacy systems to keep our core business running.


• Provide constructive feedback of peers’ deliverables.

Summary of Requirements:

• Minimum of seven (7) years of related experience with software development technologies, patterns, and practices.


• Broad understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).


• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Post-graduate coursework preferred.


• Experience with container tools such as Docker and Kubernetes


• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and Oracle, and non-relational databases such as MongoDB and DynamoDB


• Experience with infrastructure as code such as AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or Terraform


• Experience and confidence with working within a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline using tools such as Bitbucket, GitHub, Artifactory, TeamCity, and Jenkins


• Experience with frameworks and libraries such as Spring, React a plus.


• Experience with multiple programming languages (Java, TypeScript, Python) preferred


• Background in secure application development and/or partnering with security teams during application development process preferred.


• Full-stack development experience a plus but not required.

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be considered. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

This position is hybrid in Redmond, WA. Hybrid positions require regular onsite work following the schedule and guidelines for their division. This position is not open to fully remote status at this time.