[Remote] Senior Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zoom is a collaboration technology company seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain scalable, reliable backend systems and APIs. The role involves developing infrastructure, data models, and software features; improving testing and validation; supporting internal capabilities and machine learning systems; and designing elegant solutions to customer problems.

Responsibilities

• Developing infrastructure, data models, features, and the overall system to build APIs, and maintain the codebase to resolve customer issues
• Writing well-designed, testable code, ensuring systems are efficient, optimized, scalable, and reliable
• Developing software testing and validation procedures and documentation
• Ensuring Common Room's core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and ML systems serve the needs of customers and our team
• Analyzing, problem-solve, and design systems and simple, elegant solutions while considering observability, SLA, and scalability

Skills

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• Hold a Bachelor's or equivalent experience
• Be comfortable working with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js
• Able to use TypeGraphQL for our API endpoints, Apollo/Express as our web server, and Postgres(hosted on RDS) + ClickHouse as our database. We use React for front-end, and AWS for our infrastructure needs
• Able to take pride in the craft and is excited to own large projects, primarily in the backend domain
• Communicate effectively with experienced engineers, including application and front-end engineers
• Demonstrate a good judgement on tradeoffs and tooling, avoiding over-indexing on trendy technology — preferring supported, stable solutions
• Use customer problems as input into system design, finding joy in creating simple, elegant solutions

Benefits

• Structured hybrid approach centered around offices and remote work environments
• Opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career
• Collaborative, growth-focused environment

Company Overview

Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.zoom.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Zoom has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 16 in 2025, 178 in 2024, 144 in 2023, 259 in 2022, 86 in 2021, 34 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.