Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer I is a hands-on project contributor who owns the design and delivery of significant features and small-to-medium projects. The role translates business needs into reliable, secure and maintainable solutions, makes sound technical decisions under ambiguity, and helps raise the team's engineering and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead features or small-to-medium projects from requirements and design through implementation, release and production support.
• Break down ambiguous requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and communicate assumptions, risks and recommendations clearly.
• Design, develop and review clean, secure, tested and maintainable software that meets First American engineering standards.
• Embed reliability, performance, security, observability, error handling and recovery considerations into solutions.
• Partner with product, quality, architecture, platform and other engineering teams to resolve dependencies and delivery blockers.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, debugging, design discussions and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in on-call support, incident response and root-cause analysis, ensuring learnings result in durable improvements.
• Use AI-assisted development tools for design, coding, testing, documentation, debugging and analysis while rigorously validating outputs.

Competencies:

• Project ownership: Drives work end-to-end and follows through from design to measurable production outcomes.
• Technical judgment: Makes pragmatic decisions under uncertainty and balances simplicity, speed, quality, security and maintainability.
• Operational excellence: Builds reliable, observable and supportable solutions and addresses root causes rather than symptoms.
• Communication and collaboration: Communicates clearly, coordinates across teams and leads with expertise rather than ego.
• Mentoring and teamwork: Unblocks teammates, provides thoughtful feedback and helps raise the team's technical bar.
• Autonomy, curiosity and scrappiness: Takes initiative, explores alternatives, challenges inefficiency respectfully and escalates risks early.

Technical Skills:

An ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with:

• Frontend Developer: React Js or Next .Js
• Backend Developer: .NET Core, Nest.Js
• AWS services and cloud-native application development
• PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB, including data modelling and performance considerations
• Microservices, distributed-system concepts and resilient integration patterns
• Git, CI/CD, automated testing, code review and secure development practices
• Agile/Scrum delivery using tools such as Jira
• AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot or Claude Code

Preferred: Python, Node.js, OpenAPI/Swagger, infrastructure as code, observability platforms and experience with production support or SLOs.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.

Typically 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including independent ownership of production features or projects.