Senior Software Engineer

About Ancestry:

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives.

Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve.

Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

The team oversees cutting-edge, high-throughput systems engineered for extreme scale and near-zero downtime, enabling seamless user experiences even under heavy load.

Be at the heart of everything Ancestry does. Shape the future of how people connect with their heritage and stories, directly influencing the company’s success and strategic goals. This is your opportunity to join a passionate team, solving complex, meaningful challenges on an industry-leading platform.

• Develop, maintain and deploy backend functionality to support the evolving needs of Ancestry customers in the Ancestry Member Trees domain
• Work with an accomplished and collaborative team to develop microservices that serve millions of requests per second and operate in a large cloud environment
• Write code and unit tests, conduct code reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, prioritization and planning
• Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code and work with Dev Ops to ensure that our services remain in optimal working condition
• Help build the next generation of services at Ancestry
• AI Orchestration & Oversight:
  Shift from manual coding to strategic AI mentorship. You'll guide intelligent agents using precise architectural constraints and apply deep domain expertise to review machine-generated code, ensuring high reliability, performance, and minimal technical debt.

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field required
• Proficient in Java or JVM languages with 5+ years of experience in an enterprise environment
• Use Agile or other rapid application development methods
• RESTful web service development
• Experience with operating in and understanding AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP cloud environments (Fargate, Aurora, MSK, EC2)
• You are a technical orchestrator who leverages AI tooling and agents to produce software, focusing your expertise on directing the work, reviewing the output, and ensuring architectural quality.

• Experience in large sharded database environments and MySQL (Aurora)
• Experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation, or other infrastructure as code tool
• Experience with SCM/Dev Ops tools such as GIT, Harness build and deployment automation with Harness and CI/CD

Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry. Your contributions will help foster and…