Software Engineer

Meet the Team

The LIO (Lifecycle Innovation and Optimization) team is a dynamic group of people working on big transformational, highly visible initiatives and acquired company integrations. The Engineering team within the LIO organization is leading the charge on crafting a first-in-class digital experience for our customers and partners as they interact with our flagship corporate website, which is the largest and most visited digital platform supporting all stages of the lifecycle. We are at the epicenter of developing modern, cloud-native technologies, integrating various artificial intelligence tools & LLM models that allow us to stay agile and adaptable in a constantly evolving market. Pioneers in our field, Engineering team enables customers and partners to improve value with a simple, unified Cisco experience, driving accelerated time to impact. Join us and be a part of this exciting, ground-breaking journey.

Your Impact

As a full-stack software engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting and enhancing Cisco's web-based community platform to deliver an extraordinary digital experience. This role requires strong back-end engineering and solving skills. You will work with technologies including HTML5, CSS/Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, XML, , RESTAPI, and GitHub Copilot. Your responsibilities will span development and support of back-end integrations, front-end components and middleware while ensuring high levels of code quality and security. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to ensure platform reliability and scalable integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrations with other digital properties and platforms
• Develop and maintain middleware for integrations
• Develop custom components for front-end UI
• Optimize back-end performance of platform customizations
• Work in a scaled agile environment, delivering quarterly releases and long-term projects
• Collaborate with business entities to understand needs and achieve business outcomes

Minimum Qualifications

• Four years of software development/engineer experience building consumer-facing web-based products on a Java tech stack
• Strong experience with HTML5, CSS/Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, XML, , RESTAPI, XML, DOM, and templating schemes (e.g., FreeMarker, Ve ocity, XSLT)
• Knowledge of server-side programming frameworks like and , and GitHub for CI/CD
• Exposure to object-oriented programming, APIs, search engines, design patterns, concurrency, and databases
• Ability to write quality design documentation and code
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an understanding of architecture, design, and code efficiency
• Comfortable working a flexible schedule across a globally distributed organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of online community platforms and cloud deployments is a plus
• Experience designing UIs that visualize or interact with AI outputs (e.g., recommendations, chatbots, predictions)
• Understanding of UX patterns for AI systems, including feedback loops, loading states, and handling uncertain or incorrect AI behavior
• Familiarity with AI capabilities in the browser (e.g., or ), or willingness to learn

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.