Senior Software Development Engineer

Job Description:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance web applications.
• Develop public REST APIs using Python and Node for inter-service and inter-system communication.
• Implement comprehensive automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, end-to-end, load, and performance testing.
• Identify bottlenecks and tech debt; drive incremental scalability, and stability improvements.
• Develop and enhance automation frameworks for testing, monitoring, auto-scaling, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market.
• Conduct code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), and champion engineering best practices, and continuously raise the quality bar.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability.
• Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans).
• Analyze data to understand risk problems and build effective solutions.
• Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.

Requirements:

• 5-8 years of professional experience in software engineering
• Expertise in backend development, including strong proficiency in Python, Node.js, Go or C++ and building and optimizing RESTful APIs and SQL.
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving.
• Experience with cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka.
• Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases; e.g. SQL, MongoDB.
• Expertise in designing and developing internet-scale services with scalability, availability, security, and reliability design tenets.
• Familiarity with Git, automated testing frameworks, and CI/CD workflows.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative and empathetic mindset.

Benefits:

• health, dental and vision insurances
• retirement savings plan
• paid time off
• health savings account
• flexible spending accounts
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• tuition reimbursement