Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Experienced backend engineer with deep expertise in Node.js/NestJS (Typescript) and working knowledge of C#/.NET who leads technical design for medium-to-large features in an AWS microservices environment, sets code quality standards, and mentors the team.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Lead design and implementation of complex features and microservices in Node.js/NestJS (TypeScript), and in C#/.NET where needed
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, and ownership; partner with product and architecture on tradeoffs and sequencing
• Identify architectural risks and technical debt; propose and drive remediation
• Influence technical direction across the team without formal authority

Engineering Excellence & Standards

• Set and enforce best practices for testing, code review, security (OAuth/AuthHub, dependency hygiene), and observability
• Champion resilience patterns for distributed services (retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, event-driven communication)
• Establish observability standards using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, structured logging, and distributed tracing

Team Development & Mentorship

• Mentor Software Engineer I and II team members on technical growth and system design
• Review designs and code across the team with constructive, knowledge-sharing feedback

Production Excellence & Incident Management

• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for critical issues spanning multiple services
• Implement preventative measures (SLOs, alerting, runbooks) and share learnings across the team

What You'll Bring

Experience

• 58+ years of professional software development experience, with deep expertise in Node.js/TypeScript and production experience with NestJS
• Solid hands-on experience with C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core)
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating microservices on AWS
• Experience leading technical design decisions and mentoring other engineers

Technical Skills

• Expert-level Node.js and TypeScript, including async patterns, performance tuning, and the npm ecosystem
• Strong NestJS expertise: modular architecture, dependency injection, guards/interceptors/pipes, and NestJS microservice transports
• Microservices architecture: service decomposition, API gateways, REST/gRPC, event-driven messaging (SQS/SNS/EventBridge, Kafka)
• AWS services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch
• Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Relational and NoSQL data stores (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, Redis) with TypeORM or Prisma

Soft Skills

• Exceptional communication and collaboration abilities
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to balance technical excellence with business needs
• Ability to build consensus and drive decisions through influence
• Commitment to mentoring and proactively addressing technical risks