Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Backend (Hybrid)

Zuora Community; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Learning & development stipend

Volunteer opportunities

Mental wellbeing resources

Job summary

Zuora, based in Foster City, CA, seeks an experienced full‑stack engineer to design and develop flexible backend services and AI-enabled features. You will work across frontend and backend, collaborating with Data Science, Product, and Platform teams to productionize models and ensure scalable, high‑quality solutions.

The role emphasizes strong engineering fundamentals, cloud APIs (AWS), and modern tech like microservices, Kubernetes, and SQL databases.

Qualifications

• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Engineering or equivalent discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development.
• Hands-on expertise in a modern programming language (Java preferred).
• Strong understanding of cloud-based APIs (preferably AWS).
• Experience with microservices architecture (Spring Boot a plus).
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (Postgres, SQL, AWS RDS).
• Proven debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Curiosity and passion for exploring new technologies and AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable).
• Experience with agentic model architectures and RAG-based system implementation is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of Python and data modeling is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop flexible, high-performance backend services and user-facing applications.
• Build end-to-end product capabilities across frontend and backend systems with emphasis on quality.
• Partner with Data Science, Product, UX, Platform, and Partner teams to productionize models and scale AI systems.
• Bridge experimentation and production by building APIs, services, pipelines and tooling for data science solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development velocity and code quality.
• Write clean, maintainable, scalable code following strong software practices.

Skills

Java

AWS

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

Python

AI/ML tools

Education

B.Tech / BE in Computer Engineering

Tools

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

REST API

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Zuora, based in Foster City, CA, seeks an experienced full‑stack engineer to design and develop flexible backend services and AI-enabled features. You will work across frontend and backend, collaborating with Data Science, Product, and Platform teams to productionize models and ensure scalable, high‑quality solutions.

The role emphasizes strong engineering fundamentals, cloud APIs (AWS), and modern tech like microservices, Kubernetes, and SQL databases.