[Remote] Senior Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BlueMatrix is hiring a Senior Engineer to build and maintain client-facing components across its monolith and microservices. The role combines hands-on software development with engineering team leadership, delivery planning, and technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and collaboration
• Conduct 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support engineers in their professional development
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team growth strategies- including performance management tasks; annual reviews, merit, feedback conversations
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code—setting the standard for technical excellence within the team
• Actively contribute to key development projects and unblock engineering challenges as needed
• Guide architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making to ensure high-quality delivery
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and deliver solutions that meet user and business needs
• Partner with Product to shape epics, plan sprints, and prioritize the backlog
• Own team-level sprint planning, delivery timelines, and status reporting
• Hold the team accountable to sprint commitments, ensuring timely delivery of epics and completion of tickets
• Identify and manage technical dependencies and risks
• Champion engineering best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Drive continuous improvement in tools, workflows, and team processes
• Help define and implement the long-term technical strategy for your team
• Are proficient in Java while comfortable with adopting new technologies

Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 1-2+ years in a leadership or team lead capacity
• You have hands-on experience building production applications with Java, ReactJS, and PostgreSQL, and are comfortable working with Docker-based deployments
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, production-ready systems and applications
• Comfortable contributing to both frontend and/or backend codebases, depending on the team's needs
• Solid understanding of modern development practices, architecture patterns, and engineering tools
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across cross-functional teams
• Have experience delivering reliable, high-performance REST APIs
• Have a strong interest in database & query performance tuning
• Have experience and good understanding of scrum/agile development methodologies
• Are experienced with code reviews, service ownership, fully automated testing, microservices, and rapid/continuous releases
• You have technical experience with E-mail processing and tracking in large systems
• Experience with serverless, queuing, streaming
• You have worked directly in the finance industry and/or at a SaaS startup

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