Software Engineer II

Job description

**The Company** **2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Canada Recipient & Fast 500 North America Recipient 🏆** SpryPoint is modernizing how utilities serve their communities. As a high-growth software company, we're shaking up the status quo in the utility industry with the first and only truly cloud-native customer service and operations platform purpose-built for modern utilities. Founded by industry veterans in 2011, we've grown from a profitable startup to a rapidly scaling company of 300+ employees serving 100+ utility clients across North America and the Caribbean. Our mission is simple: utility leaders should expect more from their technology providers. Utilities face urgent demand to replace inefficient legacy systems while managing increasing operational complexity, and evolving customer expectations. With more than a decade of experience, and a track record of successful implementations spanning water, electric, and gas utilities, SpryPoint has built a reputation as a trusted and mission-critical partner to utilities across North America. We deliver comprehensive solutions including SpryCIS, SpryEngage, SpryMobile, and SpryWallet that modernize the entire meter-to-cash process. What sets us apart? Our "updates, not upgrades" approach, user-centric design, and unwavering focus on customer success. Backed by strategic investment from Norwest Venture Partners since 2023, and an exciting new investment partnership from Insight Partners announced in 2026, we're accelerating our growth while staying true to our core values: lead with kindness, vision with impact, radical honesty, bold disruption, keep it simple, and execute with excellence. **Join our award-winning team in transforming an essential industry that powers communities across the Americas.** **Position Overview** As a Software Engineer II, you'll play a key role in building and integrating web applications, services, and tools that real people use. Working as a full-stack developer, you'll engage with our core technologies, including Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, relational databases, and SQL. You'll also use AI tools such as Claude Code to focus your effort where it matters most and raise the quality of what you ship. You'll be part of a growing development team, contributing to the design, building, testing, and deployment of enterprise-level applications. These solutions will serve clients across North America, and you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with various teams to deliver impactful, high-quality software. ### Responsibilities - Use agentic AI tools such as Claude Code across the full lifecycle, from design through building, testing, and deployment, applying your engineering knowledge to give the tools context and validate their output. - Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing valuable insights during planning, reviews, and retrospectives. - Collaborate with team members to solve technical challenges and improve the development process. - Build and deploy web applications, ensuring performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. - Contribute to testing, using AI to automate it where it adds value, to help deliver high-quality solutions. - Stay current with new technologies, including AI tools, and adapt to new ways of working to improve quality and effectiveness. - Take ownership of tasks, ensuring timely completion and adherence to standards. - Contribute to architecture discussions and suggest improvements. - Conduct code reviews, including reviewing and validating code produced with AI tools, and incorporate feedback. - Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in development and production. - Document technical designs and best practices. - Engage in professional development, including training and workshops. - Suggest process improvements to enhance team efficiency. - Share knowledge to foster team growth and learning. - Communicate clearly with stakeholders, providing updates and raising concerns. ### Qualifications and Competencies - 3+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on Java backend web applications. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - Strong proficiency in Java, with experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code following industry best practices. - Solid understanding of relational databases and proficiency in SQL for data manipulation and querying. - Experience with web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS for developing user interfaces and interactive applications. - Familiarity with modern development and deployment methodologies, including AWS services and cloud computing concepts. - Ability to develop clean, efficient code and address complex technical problems with a solution-focused mindset, including the judgement to review and validate code produced with AI tools. - Eager to keep learning and adapt to change, exploring new ways of working to become more efficient and effective. - General AI literacy is a plus, including familiarity with AI terminology and core concepts such as large language models, prompting, providing context, and the limitations of AI output. - Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot is a plus but not required. Training will be provided.