Software Development, Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer

Chicago, United States | Posted on 09/22/2026

Senior Software Engineer provides technical leadership in design, development, testing and deployment of Client’s state-of-the-art digital platform hosted on AWS.This position will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.

Team member contributing to programming, project management, and development assignments. Working on backend services in Client’s Digital platform.

• As a Senior Software Engineer youwill be responsible for designing and developing backend RESTful API web services using Microservices architecture.
• Be responsible for overseeing and mentoring other developers and handle code reviews.
• Acts as Team Leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership,guidance, and assistance to other team members.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
• Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Guide the team to develop astructured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment.
• Lead development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field is required w/ 8+ years’experience in this capacity is needed.
• Master’s degree with 6+ years’experience in capacity is needed.
• No degree, then they must have aminimum of 10+ years’ experience in this capacity.

• 10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.

• Software Development :
  Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in linewith product requirements.
• Software Product Design/Architecture :
  Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
• Decision Makingand Critical Thinking :
  Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications :
  Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit,receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• Experience software development experience using Java
  17 or higher and Spring Boot RESTful API development.
• Experience deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS,AWS SNS , Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Azure Event Hub.
• Data stores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL , MySQL, Oracle, Elastic Search, MongoDB,Cassandra, Redis.
• Deploying software using CI/CD toolssuch as Azure Devops, Jenkins, GoCD, etc.
• Working within an Agile framework(ideally Scrum).