Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, optimize, scale, maintain and improve highly scalable and secure distributed backend services while adhering to requirements, coding and quality standards.
• Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans.
• Review others code.
• Help in project planning by identifying cross-team dependencies and effort estimation.
• Actively participate and contribute to architecture and design of complex problems.
• Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
• Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new tools and technologies and recommend ways to implement them in product development.
• Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team owing functional testing, including manual testing, writing test automation scripts, establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in building web-scale highly available multitenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services.
• Fluent in one or more object oriented programming languages - Java.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Proven experience in delivering core platform services such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
• Experience in testing the code, writing unit tests, functional tests, and automating API and UI test cases.
• Complete ownership of the functional quality of the code being written.
• Technical influence in design and architecture.
• Ability to breakdown Epics into User Stories.
• Experience with SQL, No-SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Familiarity with internet security issues in software design and code.
• Experience with ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite or Microsoft).
• FinTech or Financial services domain background.

Nice to Have

• Experience in implementing Scalable applications using Apigee, Okta or similar technologies.
• Experience in Building Microservices.
• Knowledge of Internet Security Issues in software design and code.
• Experience in search engines like Elastic Search or similar.
• Experience building applications using Serverless architecture.
• Experience in building scalable Integration Platforms using Nifi or related technologies.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent, employer will accept two (2) years of additional related work experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary range: USD $157,000.00 - USD $196,000.00.
• Short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility.
• Robust benefit and wellness plans.
• Work environment that combines virtual and in-person interactions.
• Opportunities for professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups.