[8TR] Senior Software Engineer

Overview
Software Mind is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Senior Backend Engineer.

In addition to a competitive salary rate and a positive work environment, we are committed to delivering high-quality technology solutions. We also offer:

• Flexible schedules
• An authentic work-life balance
• Payment in US Dollars

About the role:

Focus on backend services and internal tooling; web applications for shoppers and operators for listing, enrichment, and merchandising. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership.

You will be producing high-quality, performant, and testable code that directly contributes to company-wide initiatives.

Some of the main responsibilities for the role include:

- Develop using JVM (Java, Kotlin), Elixir, Ruby, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kafka, AWS/Lambda, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB; handle data per policy.

- Have input into technical decisions that will shape the future of our software systems.

- Learn something new, whether it's a new software design pattern or a new initiative to push the company forward.

- Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to your peers.

- Pair up with a team member to work together on features; support onboarding where needed.

- Deploy user-facing code to production responsibly.

- Act as a strong partner to product, engineering management, and stakeholders.

- Observability and reliability: learn from metrics and incidents; keep systems maintainable.

Job Skills/Requirements

- 3-5+ years of software engineering experience.

- Strong communication skills with product, stakeholders, and engineering peers.

- Understanding of reusable components / building component libraries when the role includes UI.

- Understanding of building production-ready web applications and systems; reliability- and security-minded engineering.

- Passionate about testing practices and continuous improvement; observability-minded delivery.

- Experience influencing technical direction (architecture, standards, delivery), not only predefined tasks.

Required Skills:

- Experience with Java, Kotlin, Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, JavaScript, Next.js, or another programming language; ready to work on JVM services (Java, Kotlin) when assignments require it.

- Familiarity with common programming tools such as IDEs, RESTful APIs, Git repositories, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools.

- Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.

- Familiarity with event-based architectures, event streaming (for example Kafka), database fundamentals, and GraphQL or comparable APIs.

- Enthusiasm for solving problems for our users with technology; uses data and business context where it helps.

Desired Skills:

- Experience with JVM services (Java, Kotlin) in production, including common frameworks and tooling, and/or with web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React.

- Experience integrating LLMs or managed AI APIs into backend or internal tooling (for example enrichment, classification, or human-in-the-loop review).

- Experience building microservices integrated with neighboring teams or shared platforms.

- Experience building eCommerce platforms.

- Experience working with a CMS, especially Prismic.

- Experience with dashboards, monitoring, or incident response in production.

We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant growth with an excellent work environment certified by Great Place To Work!

Originally posted on Himalayas