Sr. Application Engineer

Ventois Inc.; Shrewsbury (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ventois Inc. is seeking a highly skilled cloud solutions architect to design and implement cloud-based hosting for API and UI applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting application databases, developing ETL/data-integration pipelines, and mentoring team members. Key tools include Google Cloud Platform and Docker, with a focus on performance optimization and secure development practices. This role plays a critical part in the delivery of high-quality applications in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing cloud-based hosting solutions.
• Proficiency in building ETL/data integration pipelines.
• Strong understanding of secure application practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud-based hosting for API and UI applications.
• Architect application databases and develop ETL/data-integration pipelines.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements.

Skills

Cloud-based applications architecture

ETL/data integration

Containerized .NET applications

CI/CD pipeline management

Terraform infrastructure provisioning

RESTful API development

Performance optimization

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

Argos CD

Google Anthos

Job description

Ventois is always looking for talented people to become its team members.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud-based hosting for API and UI applications that align with business requirements for end-to-end data-flow operations.
• Architect application databases and develop ETL/data-integration pipelines to ingest inbound data, apply transformations, and deliver curated datasets to downstream systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and produce implementation-ready design plans.
• Mentor team members in troubleshooting complex issues, and coordinate on sprint planning, estimation, and user-story refinement.
• Perform thorough code reviews and enforce coding standards to improve code quality.
• Lead framework and dependency upgrades to remediate security vulnerabilities, modernize the stack, and reduce technical debt to production systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through deployment, including risk assessment, release planning, and post-release validation.
• Design and deploy containerized .NET applications on Google Cloud Run, configuring min/max instances, CPU memory, concurrency, and settings for production workloads.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to include security scans and deployment automation using Argos CD and Google Anthos.
• Provision and manage GCP infrastructure using Terraform, including Cloud Run services, schedulers, workflows, service accounts, and IAM bindings.
• Apply secure-by-design practices, including threat modeling, secrets management, and least privilege access, to meet compliance and audit requirements.
• Optimize application performance and scalability by profiling, tuning queries, implementing caching strategies, and validating capacity under load.
• Define and document architectural decisions (ADRs), integration patterns, and coding standards to ensure maintainability and consistent implementation across teams.
• Coordinate with product, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to align delivery milestones, integration dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Design and Develop RESTful APIs using DotNet 8 following architecture and SOLID principles.
• Participate in design reviews for new features and system enhancements, integrate Design Patterns including Repository, Strategy, Dependency Injection and DTO to ensure maintainability and testability.
• Setup Docker containerization, Docker Images and container registries as part of deployment lifecycle.