[8TR] Senior Software Engineer

Overview
Software Mind is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Senior Backend Engineer.

In addition to a competitive salary rate and a positive work environment we are committed to delivering high-quality technology solutions. We also offer:

• Flexible schedules
• An authentic work-life balance
• Payment in US Dollars

About the role:

Focus on backend services and internal tooling; web applications for shoppers and operators for listing enrichment and merchandising. Partner with product design and engineering leadership.

You will be  producing high-quality performant and testable code that directly contributes to company-wide initiatives.

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Qualifications :

Some of the main responsibilities for the role include: 

- Develop using JVM (Java Kotlin) Elixir Ruby React TypeScript GraphQL Kafka AWS/Lambda PostgreSQL DynamoDB; handle data per policy.

- Have input into technical decisions that will shape the future of our software systems.

- Learn something new whether its a new software design pattern or a new initiative to push the company forward.

- Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to your peers.

- Pair up with a team member to work together on features; support onboarding where needed.

- Deploy user-facing code to production responsibly.

- Act as a strong partner to product engineering management and stakeholders.

- Observability and reliability: learn from metrics and incidents; keep systems maintainable.

Job Skills/Requirements

- 3-5 years of software engineering experience.

- Strong communication skills with product stakeholders and engineering peers.

- Understanding of reusable components / building component libraries when the role includes UI.

- Understanding of building production-ready web applications and systems; reliability- and security-minded engineering.

- Passionate about testing practices and continuous improvement; observability-minded delivery.

- Experience influencing technical direction (architecture standards delivery) not only predefined tasks.

Required Skills:

- Experience with Java Kotlin Elixir Erlang Ruby JavaScript or another programming language; ready to work on JVM services (Java Kotlin) when assignments require it.

- Familiarity with common programming tools such as IDEs RESTful APIs Git repositories TypeScript version control software and remote deployment tools.

- Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.

- Familiarity with event-based architectures event streaming (for example Kafka) database fundamentals and GraphQL or comparable APIs.

- Enthusiasm for solving problems for our users with technology; uses data and business context where it helps.

 

Desired Skills:

- Experience with JVM services (Java Kotlin) in production including common frameworks and tooling and/or with web applications using JavaScript TypeScript HTML CSS and React.

- Experience integrating LLMs or managed AI APIs into backend or internal tooling (for example enrichment classification or human-in-the-loop review).

- Experience building microservices integrated with neighboring teams or shared platforms.

- Experience building eCommerce platforms.

- Experience working with a CMS especially Prismic.

- Experience with dashboards monitoring or incident response in production.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time