Software Development Engineer (SDE) — Full Stack

Overview

Inabia is seeking a Full Stack Software Development Engineer for a 12-month onsite contract engagement in Redmond WA. This is a hands-on build role focused on distributed cloud-native systems spanning backend services data systems and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate takes ownership of ambiguous problems and delivers concrete scalable technical solutions in a fast-moving agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Design build and ship scalable fault-tolerant backend services and APIs
• Build and maintain distributed storage indexing and query systems optimized for reliability cost and performance
• Take loosely-defined ambiguous problems and translate them into concrete technical solutions with clear implementation plans
• Work across the full stack backend data layer and cloud infrastructure as the work demands
• Collaborate with a cross-functional engineering team through sprint planning code reviews and retrospectives
• Ship working software on short iterative development cycles

Key Qualifications

• US Citizen or Green Card holder; no visa sponsorship available (C2C H-1B transfer OPT/CPT TN and third-party visa arrangements not accepted)
• 4 years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Proficiency in at least one of: Java Python Go or SQL
• Hands-on production experience with AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2 Lambda ECS/EKS RDS S3 DynamoDB CloudFormation)
• Ability to work onsite in Redmond WA 5 days per week for the full 12-month contract duration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed multi-tiered systems with relational and/or NoSQL databases at scale
• Exposure to optimization techniques such as linear or nonlinear programming
• Strong ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity defining solutions from broadly-scoped requirements rather than executing detailed specifications