Senior Software Engineer

Focus GTS; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Client in Pleasanton, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, troubleshoot, maintain, optimize and scale our cloud-based backend services. You will collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, and communicating with people at all levels.

Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving will impact the company's success and your peers.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science with 5+ years experience, or MS degree with 3+ years.
• 3+ years building Web Applications, SaaS products and RESTful APIs.
• Strong CS foundation in data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Experience in SOA and distributed systems.
• Advanced SQL knowledge including stored procedures and data modeling.
• Adaptable team player with collaboration skills and results focus.
• Preference for Scrum or other Agile methodologies and automation mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, maintain, optimize and scale cloud-based backend services.
• Collaborate with teams to define and build new features and improve existing ones.
• Write clean, efficient code and contribute to testing and quality.
• Communicate across levels to ensure successful releases and innovations.

Skills

C#

.NET

.NET Core

Web Applications

RESTful APIs

SOA / Distributed systems

SQL

Agile / Scrum

Automation

Unit testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Make Your Mark: As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling the client's cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite. In this role, you will collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company's success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization. If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where Developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, then we want to talk to you.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science plus 5 year's experience, or MS degree in Computer Science plus 3 year's experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, .NET, .NET Core.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and architecture of complex systems.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture and in building distributed systems.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.

Huge PLUSES:

• Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with open source tools.
• Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, AWS or GCP) and cloud native services.
• Experience designing and scaling high performance systems.
• Experience with container management solutions like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search.
• FinTech or Financial services domain background.

You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at Client is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• Our client offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity. Client is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws. Client recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.