Senior Platform Software Engineer

Responsibilities

The role involves owning and evolving platform components, SDKs, and integration frameworks while driving resilience and capacity optimizations. It also requires leading code reviews, troubleshooting complex issues, and collaborating across teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 8 years of software development experience or a relevant degree combined with 2 to 4 years of experience. Proficiency in distributed systems, API development, and modern programming languages is essential for this position.

Skills

• Distributed systems
• Software development
• API development
• API integration
• Cloud platforms
• Performance optimization
• Debugging
• Software architecture
• Secure coding
• System maintenance
• Algorithm engineering
• Source control
• Web development
• Prototyping
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Innovation

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement options
• Volunteer programs

About this role

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads
team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling.
Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving
fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage,
performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements
targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped
documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

* Own a bounded platform component (service module, SDK area) and evolve its
contracts for multi-tenant use.

* Perform deep debugging across a limited-service graph; drive
compatibility-safe remediation plans.

* Implement targeted resilience/capacity patterns and document adoption
guidance for team consumers.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

* Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to
achieve business and operational goals, independently.

* Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software
development lifecycle.

* Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements
following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software
design and code.

* Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.

* Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex
software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues.

* Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing),
quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and
observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead
throughout the process.

* Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and
optimization of coding.

* Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application
programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

* Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability
strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

* Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined
system architecture.

* Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best
practices.

* Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software
architecture.

* Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability
strategies in software design.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

* Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues
and align solutions.

* May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding
customer-reported issues, independently.

* Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and
suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

* Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of
issues and effective communication.

* Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes,
independently.

* Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure
customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future
enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

* Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and
coding standards.

* Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to
broad acceptance criteria during development.

* Keeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software
development processes.

* Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

* Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require
upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

* Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation,
testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability,
health, support, and reliability.

 

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

* Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure
projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively
prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting
adjustments to maintain project efficiency.

Collaboration & Partnership:

* Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared
objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business,
stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective
partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to
ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

* Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in
accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as
appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to
troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge
sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning:

* Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new
skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best
practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills.
Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with
team members.

Continuous Improvement:

* Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks
input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving
work.

QUALIFICATIONS

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