Software Engineer

Sr. Software EngineerThe Sr. Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software applications and supporting cloud-based services. This role serves as a technical contributor on development initiatives, translates business and technical requirements into reliable software solutions, and supports applications throughout the full development lifecycle.The position applies software engineering and AWS cloud practices to improve application scalability, security, availability, observability, and operational performance. The Sr. Software Engineer also provides technical guidance, contributes to design decisions, troubleshoots complex issues, and mentors other engineers.Essential FunctionsDesign, develop, document, test, deploy, and maintain new and existing software systems and applications.Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into detailed software designs and technical specifications.Serve as a technical resource on development projects and contribute to architecture, design, code-review, and implementation decisions.Develop and maintain applications and services deployed within AWS environments.Design cloud solutions using appropriate AWS compute, storage, database, networking, integration, and security capabilities.Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and repeatable environment configuration processes.Develop and support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for application build, testing, deployment, and release activities.Apply cloud security practices, including identity and access controls, encryption, secrets management, secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and logging.Implement application and cloud monitoring, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards to support availability and performance.Evaluate application performance, capacity, scalability, resilience, and cost; recommend and implement improvements.Design applications for fault tolerance, recovery, and continuity within established technical and business requirements.Analyze application code, cloud configurations, logs, metrics, and system behavior to identify the causes of errors or service degradation.Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, database, integration, and network layers.Support user acceptance testing and production applications, including incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and follow-through.Develop and maintain unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, and system tests.Participate in software design meetings and collaborate with product, engineering, security, infrastructure, architecture, and business stakeholders.Evaluate new technologies and AWS capabilities for potential implementation based on business value, technical fit, security, reliability, and cost.Contribute to estimates, delivery planning, technical documentation, support procedures, and operational readiness activities.Mentor Software Engineers and provide guidance on software design, coding, testing, cloud engineering, troubleshooting, and development practices.Support multiple initiatives while meeting established commitments and delivery deadlines.Comply with all security policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data.Perform other related duties as assigned.Minimum QualificationsTypically has 5 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role.Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production software applications.Hands-on experience developing or operating applications in AWS.Proficiency in at least one applicable programming language, such as Java, C#, C++, Python, JavaScript, or another language used by the assigned team.Experience with SQL, relational database concepts, or other data-storage technologies appropriate to the application environment.Experience with source-code management, peer code reviews, automated testing, and software-development lifecycle practices.Experience with APIs, web services, distributed systems, event-driven processing, or asynchronous application patterns.Experience with AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, or infrastructure-as-code practices.Understanding of AWS identity and access management, networking, logging, monitoring, data protection, and secure application configuration.Experience troubleshooting applications across multiple technical layers and supporting issues in test or production environments.Ability to prepare technical designs and documentation from business and technical requirements.Ability to assess technical alternatives, communicate recommendations, and contribute to sound engineering decisions.Ability to work collaboratively within an iterative Agile or Lean software-development environment.Ability to mentor engineers and provide constructive technical feedback.Preferred QualificationsExperience with AWS services relevant to the assigned environment, such as compute, containers, serverless technologies, object storage, managed databases, messaging, event processing, monitoring, and security services.Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit, Terraform, or comparable technologies.Experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms.Experience building or maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.Experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, or disaster-recovery solutions in AWS.Experience with cloud cost monitoring, resource optimization, and capacity management.Experience with observability tools, distributed tracing, centralized logging, and application-performance monitoring.Experience with test-driven development, behavior-driven development, or automated functional-testing frameworks.Experience applying secure coding practices and remediating application or cloud-security findings.AWS certification relevant to the role.Experience with UML, object-oriented analysis and design, service-oriented architecture, or domain-driven design.