Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer

At Ama Waterways, we believe meaningful careers begin with purpose, passion and a shared commitment to delivering unforgettable experiences. For those who value curiosity, connection and personal enrichment, Ama Waterways offers the opportunity to help craft meaningful river journeys that invite travelers to follow their own current. Built on a foundation of heartfelt hospitality, we treat our guests—and each other—with genuine care, warmth and respect.

Ama Waterways fosters a collaborative environment both onboard our ships and across our global network of offices, where team members grow together, support one another and take pride in upholding the high standards and thoughtful service our company is known for.

We invite talented, motivated professionals to explore our career opportunities and begin their journey with Ama Waterways today.

This position provides senior technical leadership across the full stack of Ama Waterways' consumer and partner digital products, from inception through implementation and ongoing maintenance. The Staff Software Engineer sets technical direction within an application engineering scrum team, owns the technical backlog, and drives the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing frontend and backend solutions. Working across the Next.js/React

consumer platform and the .NET services backbone (Inventory Service, Leads pipeline, identity/auth, and supporting APIs), this role combines deep hands‑on engineering with technical mentorship and cross‑team coordination. The role serves as a technical lead within one of the Application Engineering teams; specific team assignment will be determined based on portfolio needs at time of hire.

• Serve as the technical lead for an application engineering scrum team, owning the technical backlog, providing technical sign‑off, and acting as the go‑to for technical decisions.
• Drive the architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment of full‑stack solutions across the consumer website (Next.js/React) and the backend services platform (.NET, GraphQL/REST APIs).
• Design and build scalable, secure, high‑performance services and user‑facing experiences, taking ownership of components critical to the organization’s mission and core business operations.
• Translate business and product requirements into sound technical designs, clearly communicating scope, effort, risk, and trade‑offs to engineering and product stakeholders.
• Lead technical design reviews and produce technical design documentation (TDDs), architecture diagrams, and decision records for new features and system improvements.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, security, performance, accessibility, observability, and incident response across owned applications.
• Integrate frontend applications with backend systems and external data sources through RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with attention to caching, error handling, and secure data flows.
• Optimize applications for speed, scalability, and performance, including Core Web Vitals on the front end and low‑latency read paths on the back end.
• Provide effort estimations and delivery commitments in support of PMO roadmap planning and sprint execution.
• Conduct and lead code reviews, enforce branching and pull‑request workflows, and uphold the team’s Definition of Ready and Definition of Done tied to CI/CD gates.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers, providing guidance on coding standards, architectural patterns, and full‑stack best practices.
• Perform root‑cause analysis, troubleshooting, and escalation for production issues and incidents; participate in on‑call rotation as required.
• Partner with QA, UX/UI, Product, and Platform Engineering to deliver iterative, high‑quality releases in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Champion automation and modern solutions, including the appropriate use of AI coding tools and AI‑enabled capabilities, where they improve quality and velocity.
• Stay current with emerging web frameworks, backend technologies, identity patterns, security standards, and development tools, and evaluate their applicability to Ama Waterways.
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