Software Engineer (T-Shaped Backend/Cloud + Frontend)
First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team for a long-term project.
Project
A SaaS-based, data-driven eCommerce platform built on AI-powered, fully cloud-native technology for the North American market.
Responsibilities
Build and own services across the pipeline — ingestion API, validation, stream processing, adapters, serving API.
Build the UI layer — dashboards and embedded analytics — on top of the data you modelled.
Make it operable: idempotent ingest and replay, deduplication, provenance, tracing, data-quality checks, tenant isolation, GDPR handling.
Use AI coding tools to improve development productivity, code quality, debugging, and testing.
Apply AI-assisted development practices while maintaining established coding standards and version control processes.
Required Skills and Experience
5+ years building production services in the cloud as a backend engineer
Strong in at least one backend language (Java/Kotlin or Go, TypeScript/Node, Python) and comfortable working with JavaScript/TypeScript on the front end (React or similar).
Real experience with event-driven systems: message queues or streams (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis), schema evolution, at-least-once delivery, idempotency.
Microservices architecture — designing and operating independently deployable services with clear API boundaries.
Solid SQL and data modeling — you can design a warehouse schema and reason your decisions.
Cloud-native delivery: containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and monitoring.
You care about data correctness and can explain a metric's definition to a non-engineer.
Nice to Have
Snowflake and dbt.
Azure (also GCP/AWS — we're multi-cloud by design).
AI experience
Looker or another semantic/BI layer, embedded analytics.
Clickstream or product analytics: web-beacons/tags, sessionization, attribution models.
E-commerce, search, recommendations, or merchandising domain experience.
Privacy and compliance work (GDPR, SOC 2).
Experience with eventual consistency systems.
We Offer
Full-time remote position
Long-term project
Opportunity to work with modern cloud-native and AI-powered technologies
Friendly and professional international team