Software Development Engineer Middleware

Role Overview

 The Software Development Engineer designs, builds, and maintains high-quality software thatdelivers measurable business impact. This role blends deep coding expertise with productthinking and operational ownership: delivering features end-to-end, improving performance andreliability, and collaborating across product, design, and platform teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement features with clean, maintainable code; write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests aligned to a testing pyramid.
• Collaborate with product and design to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, andplan iterative delivery with clear milestones.
• Build reliable APIs/services and data models; ensure backward compatibility and clearcontracts for consumers.
• Instrument code with logs, metrics, and traces; define SLOs/SLIs; triage and resolveproduction issues with blameless root-cause analysis.
• Automate workflows (CI/CD pipelines, code quality checks, security scans) and championcontinuous delivery practices including canary/blue-green strategies where applicable.
• Maintain high standards for code reviews, documentation, and technical debt management;plan refactors that improve reliability and developer productivity.
• Partner with platform/SRE/security to embed security and compliance by design (secretsmanagement, least privilege, dependency hygiene).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. A Master’s degree is a plus.
• Minimum 1-5 years of total experience in software development area.
• Professional experience building production software in one or more languages (e.g.,Java/Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript).
• Solid grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, anddistributed systems basics.
• Experience designing REST/gRPC APIs, working with relational and/or NoSQL databases, andusing version control (Git) with modern branching strategies.
• Hands-on with automated testing and CI; understands build pipelines and artifactmanagement.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud-native development on AWS/GCP/Azure; familiarity with containers (Docker) andorchestration (Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi) and deployment strategies (canary, blue/green,feature flags).
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and performance tuning forlatency/throughput/cost.
• Security-first mindset: SAST/DAST/SCA integration, secrets management, and least-privilegeIAM design.

Core Competencies

• Ownership: drives features from concept to production and long-term maintenance;proactively manages risks and trade-offs.
• Systems thinking: designs with scalability, reliability, and cost in mind; defines clearboundaries and contracts.
• Collaboration: communicates clearly with cross-functional partners; gives and receivesactionable feedback in code reviews.

Skills:

• Languages/Frameworks: Java/Kotlin (Spring), Go, Python (FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js,NestJS/Express), React.
• Data: PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, message queues/streams (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins; artifact registries; Argo CD/Flux for GitOps.