Senior Software Engineer -Cloud

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer with strong experience in building scalable microservices, integrating with distributed data systems, and deploying web APIs that serve UI applications in the cloud. You’ll work on high-performance systems involving Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, and other modern backend technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy backend microservices and APIs that power UI applications.
• Implement event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
• Build scalable and highly available systems using NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Optimize backend systems using caching layers like Redis to enhance performance.
• Ensure seamless deployment and operation of services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code; contribute to code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 3–7 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages: Java, Python, Go, Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and API design (REST/gRPC).
• Practical experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other event streaming/message queue systems.
• Solid knowledge of NoSQL databases, especially DynamoDB or equivalents.
• Experience using Redis or Memcached for caching or pub/sub mechanisms.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS – e.g., Lambda, ECS, EKS, API Gateway).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

We're looking for highly skilled experienced engineers to design and build high-scale, cloud-based data processing systems that can handle massive amounts of data with low latency. You'll work with a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and be given the autonomy and support to do your best work. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact in society while working in a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Significant experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, C#, C/C++, or Ruby.
• Experience with container platforms such as DC/OS, Kubernetes
• Fluency in technologies and design concepts around Big Data processing and relational databases, such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Map/Reduce, stream processing, etc.
• Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code into production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
• Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
• Preferably, production experience with Cloud and data processing technologies.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

• Design and build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
• Build cloud services on top of the modern OCI infrastructure.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, to quality assurance, and to production.
• Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure our software quality bar is high.
• Optimize data processing pipelines for orders of magnitude higher throughput and faster latencies.
• Leverage a plethora of internal tooling at OCI to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8-12 years’ of industry experience in programming web applications, mobile and/or large scale enterprise products
• Deep knowledge of C#, ASP, .NET, MVC, .Net core
• Deep knowledge and extensive experience working on Ruby or React and JavaScript, as required
• Experience with XML, ADO/ADO.NET, LINQ, AJAX, IIS
• Extended experience with SQL, relational and non-relational databases
• Experience in TFS and Visual Studio
• Hands on experience with SDLC and programming design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Skillful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks
• Uses time effectively and efficiently
• Quickly learns new technologies
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing
• Effective time management skills
• Knowledge on UI technologies will be plus

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle.
• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome.
• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests.
• Contributes to Technical Requirements Documents.
• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process.
• Communicates successfully with large teams and many stakeholders.
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers.
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Works effectively with multiple projects and features.
• All other duties as assigned.