Senior Software Engineer

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP); Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Strategic Employment Partners is expanding its product engineering team and seeks a versatile engineer who can move fluidly across the stack, from core services to data pipelines. The role emphasizes modern tooling, including AI-assisted coding, while leveraging solid engineering fundamentals.

The individual will own meaningful parts of a large-scale production system used by a broad customer base, build services and integrations, and contribute to architecture discussions while mentoring newer

Qualifications

• 5+ years as an engineer at a product or technology company.
• Cloud platform experience, ideally within the Microsoft ecosystem, plus comfort with containerized environments.
• Fluency in more than one modern programming language, with Python and Java both in the mix.
• A track record with relational databases and structured data at scale.
• Curiosity about applying AI tooling to real, ongoing engineering work rather than side projects.
• Retail, ecommerce, or high-transaction-volume experience is a nice‑to‑have, not a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Owning meaningful parts of a large-scale production system used by a substantial customer base.
• Building services and integrations that other teams and downstream systems depend on.
• Getting hands-on with the data side (pipelines, storage, performance) and not just application code.
• Participating in architecture and design conversations, and helping newer engineers grow.

Skills

Cloud platform experience

Microsoft ecosystem

Containerization

Python

Java

Relational databases

AI tooling

Retail/ecommerce experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

An established name in online retail technology is expanding its product engineering team and wants someone who can move fluidly across the stack, from the services that power day-to-day transactions down into the data feeding them. This isn't a rebuild-from-scratch situation; it's a chance to shape how a platform that already serves a large customer footprint keeps evolving, using modern tooling (including AI-assisted coding) alongside solid engineering fundamentals.

Type: Full-time

Salary: $150–180k (DOE) + Bonus and Benefits

What the role involves

• Owning meaningful parts of a large-scale production system used by a substantial customer base
• Building services and integrations that other teams and downstream systems depend on
• Getting hands-on with the data side (pipelines, storage, performance) and not just application code
• Sitting in on architecture and design conversations, and helping newer engineers grow

Background that fits

• Several years (5+) as an engineer at a product or technology company
• Cloud platform experience, ideally within the Microsoft ecosystem, plus comfort with containerized environments
• Fluency in more than one modern programming language, with Python and Java both in the mix
• A track record with relational databases and structured data at scale
• Curiosity about applying AI tooling to real, ongoing engineering work rather than side projects
• Retail, ecommerce, or high-transaction-volume experience is a nice‑to‑have, not a requirement