Senior Software Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong backend focus and full-stack capabilities to design build test and maintain scalable software systems. This role will play a key part in architecting backend services developing APIs and collaborating with development team to deliver reliable high-performance applications.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in backend systems cloud-native architectures testing and modern CI/CD practices and tools while also being comfortable contributing across the full stack when needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable backend services APIs and microservices.

• Create and maintain full-scale testing architecture plans and system design for software application.

• Build test and maintain high-performance secure and reliable applications.

• Collaborate with product managers designers customers and engineers to deliver new features.

• Write clean maintainable well-tested code following best practices.

• Review code and mentor junior engineers.

• Optimize applications for performance scalability and reliability.

• Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for application.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning standups retrospectives and PI planning events.

• Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions.

• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering related field or equivalent experience.

• 1215 years (or 10-13 years with Masters Degree) of professional software development experience.

• Strong backend development experience in languages such as:

  • Java

  • Spring Boot

  • Hibernate

  • Hibernate using native queries

  • Strong automated testing experience in end-to-end testing regression testing integration testing etc.

• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.

• Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL MySQL etc.)

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud.

• Experience with agile project management software such as Jira Confluence etc.

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with version control systems such as Git.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Gitlab.

• Strong understanding of software architecture design patterns and system scalability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with frontend frameworks (React Angular or Vue).

• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform CloudFormation).

• Experience with observability tools (Datadog Prometheus Grafana).

Key Competencies:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.

• Passion for quality control and improving engineering practices.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ownership mindset and accountability for deliverables.

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