Senior Software Engineer – Core Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Convert unclear product and engineering requirements into precise designs across component boundaries.

• Assess trade-offs, define interfaces, and take into account broader system implications.

• Develop and enhance robust server-side services focusing on correctness, performance, scalability, security, and operational visibility.

• Analyze requests, data, and failures across components to pinpoint root causes and implement lasting enhancements.

• Utilize AI tools for swift prototyping and validate technical feasibility.

• Transition between design and coding by prototyping, implementing essential code, reviewing modifications, and confirming assumptions through testing and measurements.

• Employ AI agents by segmenting work into tasks, providing context and constraints, reviewing produced changes, and validating failure scenarios.

• Familiarize yourself with unknown systems across languages and codebases through code, documentation, experiments, AI tools, and teamwork.

• Enhance maintainability and delivery speed while managing compatibility, rollout, and operational risks.

• Contribute to APIs, client integrations, and user interfaces when necessary.

• Offer hands-on technical leadership, communicate decisions, coordinate between teams, mentor colleagues, and assist others in achieving results.

• Manage projects from problem definition through implementation, production adoption, continuous operation, and reliability enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience in software engineering, demonstrating ownership of production systems and impactful technical decisions.

• Strong system design capabilities, including interfaces, dependencies, data flows, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability across various components.

• Extensive backend engineering experience in at least one relevant programming language such as Go, Rust, Node.js/TypeScript, or Java.

• Proficient in debugging and performance analysis.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, asynchronous communication, data consistency, persistence, and failure recovery.

• Familiarity with databases, caching, cloud platforms, containers, and messaging technologies like Kafka, NATS, or similar systems is advantageous.

• Experience with automated testing, deployment, observability, and production troubleshooting.

• Practical application of AI coding agents for substantial engineering tasks, with the ability to articulate decisions, identify errors, and independently verify outcomes.

• A strong curiosity and initiative to learn new technologies and explore beyond a single component or specialty.

• Excellent communication skills and effective collaboration across engineering teams.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Must currently be authorized to work in the United States without the necessity for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• Preferred: Experience in production development using Rust or Go.

• Preferred: Full-stack development or significant work with client applications, SDKs, or modern frontend frameworks.

• Preferred: Experience in enhancing systems under stringent availability, latency, throughput, or cost constraints.

• Preferred: Modernizing existing software and implementing changes across multiple components or teams.

• Preferred: Event-driven systems utilizing Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or comparable technologies.

• Preferred: Experience in contact center, telecommunications, or other real-time enterprise applications.

• Preferred: Involvement in AI-enabled application development encompassing tool integration, orchestration, or evaluations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity employer.

• U.S. Federal Contractor.

• Commitment to equality and fair treatment for qualified applicants and employees.

• Physical requirements may vary based on the assigned work location.