Senior Software Engineer, Java - Systems and Scalability Engineering

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Ninja One team, contributing to our IT Operations product suite, designing and implementing scalable new solutions and product improvements. Providing clean and optimized coding solutions, you’ll work to develop high quality software applications that exceed our customers’ expectations – seriously our customers love our products.

We are engineers, technology leaders and experts. We create and deliver mission critical services to enable Ninja One’s customers to administer, protect and maintain millions of endpoints and servers. You will have the opportunity to design and develop high‑availability mission critical software systems that support our worldwide operations.

Location - We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.

We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can’t hurt:
Ninja One is built on Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang and Postgres; supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large‑scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client‑server architecture will help you.

• Java and Kotlin Software Development – use your expertise to contribute to the development of large‑scale software applications. Make quality an invariant part of your work and help your fellow engineers continue to meet our quality‑first standards.
• Committing Code and Shipping Products – you will be one of our most trusted engineers committing code. Responsible for implementing design patterns and working on enterprise level software challenges, in a startup environment. Impact product more hands on than at other companies, building software of scale that runs on millions and millions of endpoints.
• Other duties as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years experience in Java software development for product applications or equivalent. Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a stand out candidate.
• 4+ years experience working with highly scalable software systems.
• Experience working on systems at scale and finding solutions to scale systems.
• Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
• Expertise in scaling data structures and object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Jersey or Spring.
• Relational Database design and development experience.
• Experience creating both client and server‑side development, for responsive messaging.
• Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand‑out.
• Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.
• Bonus if you have python.

Ninja One unifies IT to simplify work for more than 40,000 customers in 140+ countries. The Ninja One Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience jaOne is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years.

We are a collaborative, kind, and curious community.

We honor your flexibility needs with full‑time work that is hybrid remote.

We have you covered with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.

We help you prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) plan.

We prioritize your work‑life balance with our unlimited PTO.

We reward your work with opportunity for growth and advancement.

This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship.

• Due to operational policies, Ninja One is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. We will consider all qualified candidates who reside outside of the city proper or…