Senior Software Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise-scale system architectures, driving high cohesion, modularity, and API design standards.
• Lead security initiatives: threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, remediation planning, and collaboration on compliance audits.
• Champion performance engineering: establish profiling workflows, capacity-planning practices, and proactive tuning across distributed environments.
• Arcitect and enforce engineering excellence: coding standards, automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract), CI/CD pipelines, and release orchestration.
• Design and operate fault-tolerant, self-healing systems; build observability frameworks and lead on-call rotations and incident management.
• Facilitate Agile transformation: coach Scrum/Kanban teams, run sprint ceremonies, drive backlog prioritization, and instill continuous improvement mindsets.
• Integrate AI capabilities into development lifecycles: leverage AI-assisted coding tools, automate testing with ML, and apply intelligent monitoring for anomaly detection.
• Mentor and guide other engineers on architecture, coding practices, and career growth; host regular technical reviews and brown-bag sessions.
• Partner with Product, Security, SRE, and DevOps to align roadmaps, drive end-to-end solutions, and evaluate emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with significant involvement in system and solution architecture.
• Expert proficiency in one or more modern languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Proven track record designing and operating containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, ARM).
• Hands-on experience identifying and mitigating security risks using OWASP, SAST/DAST tools, and zero-trust principles.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and messaging platforms.
• Proficiency with observability stacks (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Demonstrated success leading Agile teams using tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Projects.