Senior Cloud-Native Migration Engineer & Tech Lead

Jobtailor; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to lead cloud-native development, shaping scalable, secure, and observable platforms. You will own design, mentoring, and CI/CD practices, collaborating across product, support, and services to deliver reliable software.

You'll drive architecture decisions, champion test automation, and mentor engineers while staying ahead of AI-assisted development trends to improve product quality and velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building and supporting cloud-native applications.
• Deep expertise with CI/CD pipelines, automated build systems, and containerized deployment.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Hands-on experience with quality engineering, test automation, and observability.
• Preferred: Experience working within payments, fintech, transaction processing, or POS environments.
• Preferred: Experience serving as a technical lead or architect on enterprise-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into scalable, maintainable software solutions.
• Serve as SME on product functionality, customer needs, and strategy.
• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, secure software.
• Identify opportunities to reuse existing components and services.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and influence product direction.
• Drive implementation of complex solutions with validation, testing, and documentation.
• Champion automation testing strategies and CI practices.
• Coach and mentor developers on automated testing, code quality, and best practices.
• Define and drive quality standards, metrics, and processes.
• Monitor and optimize automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines.
• Review build and deployment metrics and implement corrective actions.
• Lead root cause analysis for production and customer issues.
• Ensure test strategies, test cases, and product documentation evolve with enhancements.
• Advocate for modern engineering standards and disciplined SDLC.
• Identify recurring issues and implement process improvements.
• Guide observability, monitoring, logging, and diagnostics capabilities.
• Leverage metrics and operational insights to identify performance trends.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development.
• Partner with Product Management, Customer Support, Professional Services, and stakeholders.
• Incorporate customer feedback into technical decisions.
• Resolve complex customer issues and drive enhancements into the product roadmap.
• Mentor and develop engineers through technical coaching and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Cloud-Native Development

CI/CD Pipelines

Automated Testing

Software Architecture

Technical Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

GitHub

Jira

Containerization

AI-Assisted Coding Tools

Automated Build Systems

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to lead cloud-native development, shaping scalable, secure, and observable platforms. You will own design, mentoring, and CI/CD practices, collaborating across product, support, and services to deliver reliable software.

You'll drive architecture decisions, champion test automation, and mentor engineers while staying ahead of AI-assisted development trends to improve product quality and velocity.