Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Your Mission

As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, your mission is to build cloud-native applications that empower users to work more efficiently across a variety of use cases. Using a UX-driven approach, you’ll focus on delivering APIs for web and mobile platforms, edge computing solutions, and orchestration for deployments and pipelines, all designed with performance, efficiency, and ease-of-use in mind.

At SADA, a premier Google Cloud Platform (GCP) partner, you’ll help customers maximize their use of GCP technologies across diverse industries. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain broad experience solving complex challenges and developing scalable solutions in a dynamic, service-oriented environment.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to projects at all stages from early discovery and architecture to full end-to-end application development and technical consulting for customers
• Effectively manage your time across 1–2 concurrent projects, working within teams that vary in size and scope
• Work closely with solution architects, project managers, and engineers to define and deliver high-quality user experiences
• Build reusable tools, processes, and solutions that drive efficiency and scalability for both SADA and its clients

Pathway to Success 

#Hungry is at the foundation of all our engineering. Our motivation is to provide customers with an exceptional experience in migrating, developing, modernizing, and operationalizing their systems in Google Cloud Platform.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured bi-yearly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.  

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the engineering or management growth tracks. 

Expectations

Required Travel - Limited (<5%) travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events. 

Customer Facing - You will interact with customers regularly, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date. 

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in software development more focused on backend development

Required Qualifications: 

• Expertise in development with one or more of the following languages: Java/Kotlin, Python, or Node.js
• Working knowledge of Spring Boot service ecosystem
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL datastores and adjacent technologies (ORMs, schema migration tools)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, developer-friendly REST APIs using OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications
• Exposure to full stack development, from setting up application and database server infrastructure to developing and implementing application code
• Extensive experience writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests

Useful Qualifications:

• Experience tuning applications for non-functional requirements, i.e., usability, maintainability, scalability, availability, security, portability, etc. 
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform, in particular serverless (Cloud Functions), containers (Cloud Run, Kubernetes), and platforms (App Engine)
• Experience interfacing with Architects, Product Management to design and implement solutions
• Experience with Pub / Sub and event messaging technologies
• Experience working with and diagnosing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Harness, or GCP Cloud Build)
• Familiarity with frontend web technologies, particularly React and Angular
• A degree in computer science or a related field is preferred

About SADA An Insight company

Values:  We built our core values on themes that internally compel us to deliver our best to our partners, our customers and to each other. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to SADA’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer.

1. Hunger
2. Heart
3. Harmony

Work with the Best: SADA has been the largest Google Cloud partner in North America since 2016 and, for the eighth year in a row, has been named a Google Global Partner of the Year.  SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group and Inc. Magazine, and was recognized as a Niche Player in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services.

Benefits: 7 days of PTO, paid parental leave, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, health and travel insurance, referral bonus program, subsidized wellness/gym packages, employee social events, subsidized lunches, training and professional development as well as Google-certified training programs.

Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for 15 years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.