VIAVI Solutions

Senior Software Development Engineer

St. Etienne, FRA
Full-time
Posted Nov 6, 2026

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Skills

Agile
CI/CD
CSS
Customer Success
Data Analysis
Docker
French
GraphQL
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Linux
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Python
REST APIs
TypeScript

Job description

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customers’ most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Located in Saint-Etienne, integrated into the R&D Team, you will develop and deliver our Fiber Monitoring Solution for the fiber optic product line, especially for our bestseller and top product on the market: ONMSi.

Duties & Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Development Engineer - Web Full Stack, you will be responsible for:

•Interacting with diverse areas within VIAVI (e.g., marketing, other divisions) to achieve business unit goals in development.

•Displaying experience and heavily participating in full lifecycle process of development for software systems.

•In conjunction with Marketing and Engineering teams, developing and maintaining a product aligned with industry architecture trends the strategic direction of the business.

•Technological watching to follow up the market evolution and facilitating innovation. • Working closely with other team members on different competencies like Security, DevOps, and Automation.

•Providing the technical expertise to Support teams in field issues analysis

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

We are looking for individuals with skills and experience in the following topics: Organization development and Communication, Software Development.

Organization Development and Communication:

•Master's or Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, Information Technology discipline or similar.

•Fluent in French and English.

•Good interpersonal skills being able to work autonomously but also ability to work in a team.

•Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and master new technologies and techniques.

•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and abilities.

•Good oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with Product Line Manager, and executive levels.

•Ability to work across sites, time zones and cultures to deliver on project goals in addition to overall company initiatives.

•Professional experience of agile working methods would an advantage.

Software Development:

•Languages: Experience in Java (Spring, J2EE), Typescript.

•Web technologies: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Angular, REST, GraphQL.

•Database knowledge: JPA, PostgreSQL.

•Open Source solutions.

Platforms:

•Linux: RHEL, Ubuntu.

Plus factors:

•Python.

•NodeJS.

•MicroServices, Docker containers.

•Orchestration platforms: Kubernetes, …

•Cloud platform experience.

•Business Intelligence, Data Analytics.

•Swagger/OpenAPI for RESTful APIs.

•Database: Geospatial.

•Continuous Integration, CI/CD, DevOps.

•Virtualization platform experience.

•Various Network Communication Protocol experience.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.

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