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The impact you can have

The SonarSource Languages Team is looking for a passionate Java Developer to create the most advanced static analyzers in the world.

By joining our team, you will be part of an autonomous team without a manager. You will choose what to work on. Within our team you will be supported by great colleagues who are always willing to discuss. You will be able to grow your development and professional skills, and focus on what matters.

On a daily basis, you will

• Develop new and maintain existing features for code analyzers for different programming languages (Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Swift, TSQL, etc.)


• Evolve the way our analyzers understand code by creating ever better models and develop new rules on top of them


• Contribute to code quality of the hundreds of thousands of developers around the world


• Contribute to open source: develop open source products and contribute back to libraries used by your products


• Define the team’s short and long term goals

The skills you will demonstrate

• Ability to develop in Java with clean code


• Excellent engineering skills and good Computer Science fundamentals


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


• Experience with agile practices and principles


• Comfortable in dealing with change and complexity


• 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


• Compiler frontend knowledge is not required; you will learn it while working at SonarSource

Words from the team

The Languages Team's mission is to build state-of-the-art static analyzers used by millions of developers.

We want to help developers to write better and safer code by spotting issues of several kinds for all major programming languages:

• Maintainability issues: code smells


• Reliability issues: bugs


• Security issues: vulnerabilities and security hotspots

Ultimately, we target all issues which can be found through static analysis, even if they require a very deep understanding of the code. The sky's the limit! We believe that, as a side effect, our analyzers should educate developers about coding best practices thanks to the rule descriptions and to the raised issues.

From a SonarSource perspective, the mission of the Language Team is to generate the data that will provide the most valuable feedback for users of SonarSource’s products.

How to perform during interviews

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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, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.


• 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. This is why some people prefer working some days from home.


• 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.

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