Senior Software Engineer

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, maintainable solutions across backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers.
• Lead technical discussions: system design, code review, architecture trade-offs.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks - caching, query optimization, async processing.
• Own end-to-end quality: write and maintain unit, integration, and automation test coverage.
• Mentor and conduct technical reviews for junior and mid-level engineers.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, and AI-assisted workflows to improve team velocity.
• Collaborate across time zones and with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Ops).

Qualifications

• English: Advanced - reads, writes, and communicates technical content fluently with international teams (non-negotiable).
• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, time/space complexity, concurrency, software design patterns.
• Full-stack proficiency in at least one modern language (TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or equivalent); comfortable reasoning about code outside your primary stack.
• Hands-on experience with microservice infrastructure: WebSocket or SSE for real-time communication, message queues (Kafka or RabbitMQ), distributed caching (Redis), containerization (Docker).
• Strong database foundations: schema design, query optimization, both SQL and NoSQL.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and a test-driven mindset across unit and integration layers.
• AI engineering as daily practice: prompt engineering and AI coding assistants integrated into regular workflow.
• Demonstrated mentorship or technical leadership experience.
• Nice-to-have: digital transformation initiatives, open-source contributions or technical writing, cloud platform experience (any major provider).