Advanced Specialist, Software Engineering

The Role

What Youll Own

• Lead the architecture design implementation testing deployment operationalization and production support of complex software systems.
• Build scalable reliable secure and highly available backend services distributed systems event-driven applications and stream-processing solutions.
• Own major engineering initiatives from technical discovery and solution definition through delivery production rollout and ongoing support.
• Balance the delivery of new product capabilities with modernization technical debt reduction reliability improvements and maintenance of existing systems.
• Partner with product architecture platform security operations development and other solution teams to translate business requirements into practical technical approaches.
• Develop and communicate technical proposals that clearly explain solution architecture implementation decisions expected outcomes dependencies risks and trade-offs.
• Lead technical discovery sessions architecture reviews system design discussions and implementation planning for complex initiatives.
• Design APIs microservices asynchronous workflows event-driven systems streaming applications and cloud-native services that can evolve with changing product and platform needs.
• Evaluate existing platform capabilities shared services and APIs before introducing new solutions ensuring alignment with broader enterprise architecture.
• Create proof-of-concept solutions to validate technical approaches and evolve successful prototypes into secure maintainable and production-ready capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams across onshore and offshore locations ensuring development activities are coordinated and delivered with high quality.
• Work independently navigate ambiguity identify the appropriate path forward and drive initiatives to completion with limited oversight.
• Mentor engineers through technical design guidance code reviews troubleshooting knowledge sharing and the adoption of engineering best practices.
• Establish and promote standards for code quality automated testing observability resiliency security documentation and operational readiness.
• Produce clear and maintainable technical documentation including system designs architecture decisions workflows operational runbooks troubleshooting guidance and engineering standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across software development delivery deployment maintenance and production support practices.
• Take ownership of production systems including monitoring incident response root-cause analysis performance optimization and implementation of long-term corrective actions.
• Operate effectively in a 24/7 production environment and understand the responsibility associated with supporting business-critical software platforms.
• Stay current with advancements in cloud computing distributed systems software architecture artificial intelligence and engineering productivity.
• Evaluate and responsibly adopt AI-assisted and agentic engineering capabilities where they improve solution quality developer productivity operational efficiency or customer outcomes.
• Contribute to an AI-native engineering culture by applying AI capabilities throughout appropriate stages of discovery design development testing documentation deployment and operational support.

About You

You are an experienced software engineer and technical leader who combines deep backend engineering knowledge with strong ownership sound technical judgment and effective communication.

You are highly autonomous and comfortable independently driving complex initiatives. You can navigate ambiguity identify missing requirements evaluate technical and business trade-offs and establish a practical path toward delivery.

You are willing to take on difficult challenges and remain accountable throughout the entire lifecycle of a solution from discovery and design through implementation deployment monitoring maintenance and production support.

You are equally comfortable developing new functionality and improving existing systems. You understand that mature products require continued investment in reliability observability performance modernization technical debt reduction documentation and operational excellence.

You work effectively across organizational and technical boundaries influence decisions through expertise and collaboration and explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or a related discipline. A masters degree is a plus.
• 7 years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience designing developing and operating backend systems.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead or senior engineer for complex cross-functional software initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of backend engineering concepts including distributed systems concurrency scalability fault tolerance resiliency consistency event processing and performance.
• Strong programming experience with at least one modern strongly typed language such as Java Kotlin Scala C# Go Rust or TypeScript.
• Experience designing and building microservices RESTful APIs asynchronous workflows event-driven architectures streaming systems and integration services.
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native engineering including several of the following:
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon ECS or EKS
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • Amazon SQS and SNS
  • Amazon EventBridge
  • Amazon MSK
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon RDS or Aurora
  • Amazon Neptune
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Infrastructure as Code
• Experience designing systems using serverless containerized microservice-based and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with relational NoSQL graph and streaming data technologies including data modeling scalable access patterns and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of API design system integration authentication authorization application security and data protection principles.
• Experience with automated testing including unit integration contract and end-to-end testing along with continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Experience implementing observability using structured logging metrics distributed tracing dashboards and proactive alerting.
• Experience diagnosing complex production issues conducting root-cause analysis and improving system reliability across distributed applications.
• Proven ability to create technical documentation architecture diagrams design proposals operational runbooks and engineering best-practice guidance.
• Experience building proof-of-concept solutions and successfully evolving them into scalable production-ready systems.
• Experience maintaining and modernizing mature software platforms with significant operational support and technical debt considerations.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and coordinating engineering delivery across globally distributed teams.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage work make informed technical decisions navigate uncertainty and drive initiatives through completion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate technical decisions trade-offs risks and recommendations to engineering leaders product partners and business stakeholders.

AI and Modern Engineering Capabilities

• Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve solution analysis design implementation testing documentation troubleshooting and developer productivity.
• Familiarity with agentic AI technologies including AI agents tool-based workflows retrieval-augmented generation model integration and AI-enabled automation.
• Familiarity with the AI Development Lifecycle or AI-DLC including the responsible application of AI throughout discovery design development validation deployment monitoring and operational support.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means taking end-to-end ownership of complex engineering initiatives and consistently delivering secure scalable reliable and maintainable solutions. You will successfully balance new feature development with the modernization operational support and continued improvement of existing capabilities. You will bring technical clarity to ambiguous problems make sound architectural decisions raise engineering standards and help teams deliver with greater quality and confidence. Beyond writing code you will ensure that solutions are well designed thoroughly tested observable documented operationally ready and aligned with the long-term direction of the platform. You will also contribute to building a strong engineering culture by mentoring others promoting collaboration and responsibly adopting AI-assisted and agentic technologies where they create meaningful value.