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Senior Software Engineer



Job description

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Experience: 5+ years
Location: Onsite
Industry: Media & Entertainment
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in with expertise in backend systems, databases, and cloud platforms.

This role blends hands-on backend engineering with higher-level responsibilities in design, architecture, and team leadership.

You’ll play a key role in shaping solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software.
This role requires strong technical depth combined with the ability to design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of backend services and APIs using modern backend frameworks
- Design and implement backend systems that are highly scalable and easily expandable, ensuring they can adapt to evolving business needs and future growth.
- Contribute to system architecture discussions and own module/service-level designs
- Design and build client-facing APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure, ensuring services and APIs comply with security best practices in collaboration with the security team.
- Design and build internal APIs that are consumed by frontend applications and services
- Write clean, maintainable, and performant code
- Design and optimize solutions using relational and non-relational databases.
- Adopt and champion AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and share best practices across the team.
- Partner with QA to deliver quality features in a timely manner.
- Ensure sufficient unit test coverage for backend services, working closely with the Tech Lead to validate test quality and completeness.
- Support and mentor junior engineers in writing effective unit tests and fostering a test-first mindset.
- Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and ensure engineering alignment with business goals
- Partner with engineers to confirm solutions meet product and technical requirements
- Contribute to Agile development processes by participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and ensuring timely delivery of features.
- Guide junior engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Champion best practices in CI/CD, containerization, and observability/monitoring
- Contribute to technical decision-making and process improvements
- Participate in the hiring and interview process as needed
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Strong proficiency in backend service development
- Strong hands-on experience with relational databases
- Hands-on experience working with to non-relational databases
- Experience with distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven messaging architectures.
- Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud platforms and building distributed, scalable systems
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and containerization
- Experience embedding security and compliance best practices into backend and API design.
- Strong understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, and high availability.
- Proficiency in leveraging and evaluating AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
- Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure system reliability.
- Strong experience in Agile development, including contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure high-quality delivery.
- Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests, with the ability to guide less-experienced engineers in adopting testing best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Media & entertainment industry experience
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Nomad)
- Exposure to multiple backend frameworks is a plus (including .NET Core and its ecosystem)
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, and advocate for their adoption to improve engineering productivity.


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