Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Sectigo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sectigo seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our global team in Chennai. You will contribute across backend services, APIs, and frontend applications, helping modernize legacy Perl systems into bounded services.

Emphasizing testing, architecture, and observability, you will own end-to-end feature development with a strong emphasis on reliability and security. The role requires deep experience in Perl, Go, and TypeScript, plus a drive for disciplined modernization and contract-tested

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant developer experience in corporate settings.
• Strong knowledge across Perl, Go, and TypeScript with front-end integration.
• Experience with modern SaaS platforms and service-oriented architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy features across backend, frontend, APIs, and databases.
• Contribute to migrations, CI/CD improvements, and operational tooling.
• Maintain production reliability and participate in troubleshooting and optimization.
• Collaborate on modernization and service decomposition initiatives.

Skills

Full stack development

Backend emphasis

Go

Perl

TypeScript

Testing (TDD)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Liquibase

OpenAPI

Observability tools

Job description

Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering solutions that help the world’s largest brands simplify how digital trust is managed and scaled. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across enterprise environments, enabling organizations to reduce complexity, accelerate time to value, and strengthen security across environments.

Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers, including 65% of the Fortune 500. Sectigo holds six combined active leadership seats in the CA/Browser Forum and ETSI and brings two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

Simplicity at Scale.

How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our growing global team at Sectigo.

We are hiring a backend-leaning Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to help build, test, and operate a modern SaaS platform spanning Perl, Go, and TypeScript/Vue services. The platform is evolving from legacy Perl systems into better-bounded services, and we are looking for engineers who value disciplined modernization over unnecessary rewrites.

You will contribute across backend services, APIs, frontend applications, testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and deployment workflows. The environment emphasizes strong engineering practices, operational ownership, and thoughtful architectural decision-making.

Here are the core functions, responsibilities, and expectations for this role:

End-to-End Feature Development

• Design, implement, test, and deploy features across backend, frontend, APIs, and database layers.
• Contribute to schema migrations, CI/CD improvements, and operational tooling.
• Maintain production reliability and participate in troubleshooting and optimization.
• Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Modernization & Service Decomposition

• Extract legacy Perl functionality into better-bounded services using strangler-fig patterns.
• Build API-first integrations and contract-tested boundaries.
• Apply pragmatic service decomposition without overengineering.

Engineering Excellence

• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• SOLID principles
• Hexagonal architecture
• Feature flags and continuous refactoring
• Observability-first development
• Security-by-default practices
• Small, maintainable pull requests

More information about this role

• The targeted compensation package for this role is between INR 20 LPA and 22 LPA, subject upon internal equity and years of experience. We may make further adjustments through an approval process if the targeted compensation range needs to be modified based on business needs and market trends.
• This is a full-time and in-office position, reporting to our Chennai office 5 days a week.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience is strongly preferred.

Experience

• A minimum of 10years of relevant technical developer experience in corporate and/or commercial settings.

Candidates should be strong in at least three of the following and able to become productive in others quickly.

Expected Testing Practices

• Perl: prove, Test::More, integration and request-level tests
• Go: go test, table-driven tests, httptest, race detection
• Frontend: TypeScript component and integration testing, Vitest
• E2E: Playwright and API smoke testing
• Contract & DB: OpenAPI contract tests and Liquibase migration checks

Quality Expectations

• Every PR includes tests proving the change.
• Mutation score is prioritized over raw coverage.
• Flaky tests are fixed immediately.
• CI pipelines are treated as production-critical systems.

Required DevOps Skills

• Docker and containerized workflows
• GitHub Actions CI/CD
• GHCR deployments
• Traefik routing and reverse proxy configuration
• Liquibase migrations
• Structured logging and metrics
• Profiling and debugging across runtimes
• Secret management and secure configuration handling

Strong understanding of

• Strangler-fig migrations
• Anti-corruption layers
• OpenAPI-first design
• Event-driven integration with RabbitMQ
• Idempotency, retries, and timeout handling
• Expand / migrate / contract database strategies

Ideal Candidate Profiles, Talents, and Desired Qualifications

• Mutation testing experience
• Contract testing frameworks
• Kubernetes / Kustomize
• Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
• Cross-runtime profiling
• WordPress plugin development
• Experience extracting monolith services into production safely
• Prior authorship of skill packs or AGENTS.md workflows

Additional Information

Sectigo is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

At Sectigo, we are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout your career. We hire and promote the most qualified individuals based on their skills, experience, job requirements, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws in the countries where we operate.

Our “One Sectigo” culture fosters a strong sense of belonging and supports a respectful, inclusive workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Our Hiring Process at Sectigo

To enhance your experience, Sectigo may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools during the recruitment process. We are committed to using AI responsibly and transparently, ensuring fairness, accuracy, and human oversight at every stage.

Global team. Global reach. Global impact.

At Sectigo, we believe doing good is good business. Our strength and our success come from our team of passionate, engaged individuals who make a difference, both locally and globally. Our commitment to engagement is rooted in an unconditionally inclusive workforce, embodying our unique perspectives, heritages, and backgrounds, all as diverse as the experiences of each Sectigo employee. Importantly, we strive to be recognized not only as the CLM leader but also for our intentional efforts to promote employees into the roles that most challenge and excite them, into experiences that allow them to grow their interests as we grow the business. We are committed to bringing a little bit of fun and a whole lot of happiness into everything we do so that our work – and our team members – reflect the positive outcomes we deliver to our customers every day.