Senior Software Engineer
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Summary:
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with deep full-stack expertise and a strong DevOps orientation. This individual will play a key role in designing, building, testing, and operating scalable web applications that support critical business functions.
The ideal candidate combines strong frontend and backend development capabilities with a disciplined approach to automation, testing, CI/CD, and production reliability. This role requires technical leadership, architectural judgment, and the ability to drive engineering excellence across the software lifecycle.
Essential Functions:
Full-Stack Application Development
- Architect, design, and implement scalable applications using Next.js and React
- Develop and maintain backend services and GraphQL APIs, including schema design and performance optimization
- Ensure high standards for code quality, security, performance, and maintainability
- Participate in architectural design reviews and technical decision-making
Testing & Quality Engineering
- Lead implementation of comprehensive automated testing strategies, including:
- End-to-end UI testing (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
- API and integration testing
- Unit and regression testing
- Establish and enforce best practices for test coverage and quality gates
- Improve system stability through proactive quality engineering practices
DevOps & Continuous Delivery
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Automate build, test, and deployment workflows across environments
- Improve release reliability, deployment frequency, and rollback strategies
- Contribute to monitoring, logging, and observability improvements
- Support production systems and participate in incident resolution when needed
Technical Leadership
- Mentor engineers and provide guidance on architecture and best practices
- Contribute to engineering standards and documentation
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes and tooling
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Infrastructure teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience and a minimum of 4 years of experience in modern frontend frameworks, including Next.js and React. Other combinations of education and/or experience may be considered.
- Strong experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs
- Proven experience in full-stack system architecture and development
- Demonstrated experience implementing automated testing for UI and APIs
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, continuous delivery, and production system reliability
- Experience working with scalable, production-grade applications
- Excellent communication skills and ability to lead technical initiatives
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and managing applications in Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code solutions
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and modern deployment patterns
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar platforms
- Experience integrating AI APIs or intelligent automation into applications
- Strong architectural and systems design capability
- Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes
- Commitment to automation and operational excellence
- Ability to balance technical rigor with delivery timelines
- Continuous learner who leverages modern tools, including AI-assisted development
- Other combinations of education and/or experience may be considered.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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