Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SoTalent is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain scalable backend platforms and cloud-based services. The role focuses on backend development, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, production support, security, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable server-side applications and services
- Take end-to-end ownership of the systems you build, including deployment, monitoring, and ongoing operational support
- Enhance application performance, reliability, and maintainability through continuous improvements
- Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making
- Collaborate with cloud and platform engineering teams to maintain and improve production environments
- Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure system health
- Support cloud-based deployments and troubleshoot infrastructure or application issues as needed
- Help improve operational processes, automation, and platform stability
- Participate in on-call rotations to investigate and resolve production incidents
- Support application releases, dependency upgrades, and operational maintenance activities
- Partner with support and engineering teams to address customer-reported issues and system incidents
- Drive root-cause analysis and preventative measures to reduce recurring issues
- Work closely with frontend developers, product teams, designers, and platform engineers to deliver solutions aligned with business needs
- Contribute to API design, integration strategies, and data contract definitions
- Ensure backend services effectively support evolving product requirements
- Foster strong communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
- Participate in code reviews and promote high standards of code quality and reliability
- Contribute to testing strategies, automation, and engineering best practices
- Support security reviews and ensure compliance with data protection and privacy requirements
- Leverage modern development tools and technologies to improve productivity and software quality
Skills
- 4+ years of professional software development experience with a strong backend engineering focus
- Experience building backend services using technologies such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Rust, or similar programming languages
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL optimization, schema design, and database migrations
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting cloud-based applications
- Hands-on experience with containerized environments and cloud deployment pipelines
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident management practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations
- Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience supporting systems in production environments
- Experience mentoring developers and contributing to engineering excellence initiatives
- Experience with performance testing and system optimization
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container orchestration platforms
- Exposure to cloud automation and platform engineering practices
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or personal technical initiatives
- Familiarity with modern backend frameworks and distributed system architectures
Benefits
- Remote work in the Continental U.S.
- Occasional travel
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