Senior Software Engineer

CORE PROFILE

This role will heavily contribute in maintaining existing services and implementing Maya’s next generation Loyalty Platform. He/she should be able to design and implement backend services with performance, recovery, resiliency, configurability and maintainability in mind. Experience working with unit testing, cloud services, containerization, and CI/CD tools is required.

NATURE OF WORK

• Build and maintain applications and related system components.
• Design, plan, and implement services capable of dealing with huge volume of transactions.
• Develop secure and reusable APIs for internal and external use.
• Actively participate in code reviews and deployments.
• Implement automation tools for various utilities such as testing, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerts.
• Perform load testing benchmarks, analyze results, and identify areas for optimizations
• Lead architecture and design discussions for assigned services and domains, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Drive technical decisions and influence engineering direction across multiple services.
• Evaluate the suitability of new tech stacks for existing and new platforms.
• Influence technical solutions across partner engineering teams and proactively align platform capabilities with product and business requirements.
• Own the technical health and lifecycle of one or more critical services, including architecture, observability, reliability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair programming, and technical coaching.
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, and postmortem activities, driving systemic improvements to platform reliability.
• Champion engineering best practices, coding standards, security requirements, testing strategies, and operational readiness across the team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in application development using Node.js/Typescript
• 5+ years of experience in backend development
• Extensive experience in building and consuming RESTful web APIs
• Proficiency with Relational Databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and exposure to NoSQL Databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Dynamo, Redis)
• Familiarity with unit testing using frameworks such as Jest, Mocha and utilities such as Chai, Istanbul
• Strong grasp of version control tools (Git)
• Experience with creating, maintaining and deploying containerized applications (e.g., Docker, K8s, ECS, EKS)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Gitlab CI, Jenkins, or anything similar)
• Experience with messaging systems and event-driven architecture
• Experience with Amazon Web Services or similar cloud service providers
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in developing and maintaining critical systems in production is a plus
• Experience developing apps using Java, Golang, Scala or Python is a plus
• Knowledge of mobile frontend development (Flutter, Native) is a plus
• Knowledge of web frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, Vue, Angular) is a plus