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At Genesys we help organizations create better customer experiences through AI-powered experience orchestration. Our platform connects people systems data and AI to help organizations deliver more personalized service improve operational efficiency and build stronger customer relationships.

Help build support and operate technology used by more than 8000 organizations in over 100 countries moving AI from possibility to production in real-world enterprise environments every day.

Staff Software Engineer Digital Messaging Platform

Summary

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Digital Messaging Platform team within Genesys Cloud. This team designs builds and operates highly available communication services that power customer experience across digital messaging channels.

In this role you will help lead the technical direction of scalable secure and reliable messaging services. You will work on distributed cloud-based systems that support message routing delivery tracking integrations and operational visibility across multiple digital channels. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can deliver complex systems independently influence architectural direction and help raise engineering standards across the team.

Responsibilities / Job Duties

• Lead the design development and operation of scalable digital messaging services within a cloud-based microservice architecture.

• Own and influence architectural decisions for highly available fault-tolerant and secure messaging systems.

• Design and implement features supporting message routing delivery tracking analytics observability and operational tooling.

• Build and maintain integrations with digital messaging channels and social platforms such as Meta X WhatsApp LINE SMS and other third-party providers.

• Partner with product engineering security and operations teams to deliver reliable customer-facing capabilities.

• Drive improvements in system reliability scalability performance monitoring alerting and incident response.

• Contribute to technical design reviews code reviews and engineering best practices.

• Mentor engineers and help raise the technical quality of the team.

• Write and maintain automated tests across unit integration and end-to-end test layers.

• Participate in the teams on-call rotation and contribute to continuous improvement of service operations.

Minimum Requirements

• 8 years of relevant software engineering experience with strong hands-on experience in Java.

• Experience designing building and operating distributed systems or microservice-based architectures.

• Proven track record of delivering fault-tolerant highly available production systems.

• Experience owning complex technical work independently from design through production operation.

• Proficiency with REST APIs and service-to-service integration patterns.

• Experience with automated testing including unit integration and end-to-end testing.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure preferably AWS.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to reason through complex technical trade-offs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience working effectively with distributed teams.

• Self-motivated collaborative and comfortable operating with ambiguity.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience building or operating digital messaging email SMS or social channel integrations.

• Experience with Meta X WhatsApp LINE or other third-party messaging platforms.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as DynamoDB S3 SQS SNS Lambda ECS or related technologies.

• Experience with asynchronous message processing and event-driven architectures.

• Experience with DynamoDB or other NoSQL data stores for message storage tracking or state management.

• Knowledge of messaging deliverability compliance privacy and abuse-prevention best practices.

• Familiarity with GDPR CAN-SPAM or related regulatory considerations.

• Experience with monitoring observability alerting and incident management tools.

• Experience with TypeScript or other modern backend/frontend development languages.

• Understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP DNS load balancing subnets and network ACLs.

• Experience with Git and modern software delivery practices.

Work Environment

• Fast-paced agile development environment.

• Remote-friendly team with distributed collaboration across regions and time zones.

• Regular participation in code reviews technical discussions and design reviews.

• Strong focus on operational excellence continuous learning and continuous improvement.

• Adherence to the Genesys Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

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Working at Genesys

• AI at enterprise scale Build support and operate AI-powered technology used by more than 8000 organizations worldwide. 150new AI features were released in the last fiscal year.
• A flexible-first culture Join a global team of nearly 7000 employees with flexible ways of working designed to help people do their best work.
• Growth in the AI era Build future-ready skills through mentorship learning programs leadership development and education support.
• Time to recharge and give back Benefits include paid volunteer time August Free Fridays well-being resources and regionally tailored programs for employees and their families.
• Recognized globally Genesys is Great Place to Work certified in 17 countries and 94% of employees are proud to tell others they work at Genesys.

Learn more about our culture AI innovation and sustainability commitments through our Careers site and Sustainability Report.

What Happens After You Apply

After you apply heres what you can typically expect:

• Our Talent Acquisition team reviews your application with the hiring team.

• A Talent Acquisition Partner will review your application and if your background is aligned schedule a Zoom interview.

• Next youll meet the hiring manager and other members of the interview team.

• We aim to keep the process focused and respectful of your time with no more than five interviews in most cases.

• After interviews are complete our team will follow up with the final steps.

Every application is reviewed by a person. Response times may vary by role and location but our team will keep you informed throughout the process.

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About Genesys:

Genesys empowers more than 8000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. With agentic AI at its core Genesys Cloud is the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform that connects people systems data and AI across the enterprise. As a result organizations can drive customer loyalty growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces. To learn more visit.

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