Senior Software Engineer

Our client is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions and technology services, helping organizations strengthen their security posture, manage risk, and protect critical digital infrastructure. They offer the opportunity to work on innovative, large-scale technology initiatives in highly secure, mission-critical environments.

Senior Software Engineer

Remote in the US (Central Time Zone working hours)

Contract (40 hours per week)

• Java Development: 6+ years of hands-on Java development experience building high-performance, production-grade services, with strong knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• RESTful API Development & Security: 6+ years of experience designing, developing, and securing RESTful APIs, including API security expertise and experience building scalable, mission-critical applications.
• Identity & Access Management: 2+ years of hands-on experience implementing authentication and authorization protocols, specifically OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML 2.0.
• Cloud-Native Development: Strong experience developing and deploying cloud-native applications on GCP or equivalent cloud platforms, including containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable deployment strategies.
• High-Availability Systems & Production Support: Proven experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency systems with strict SLAs, including observability, incident response, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services and secure RESTful APIs supporting mission-critical customer platforms.
• Build and deploy cloud-native, horizontally scalable applications on GCP or equivalent public cloud platforms.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML 2.0.
• Develop API-first solutions emphasizing strong API contracts, backward compatibility, maintainability, and security best practices.
• Engineer highly available systems targeting API latency below 50ms, throughput exceeding 5,000 transactions per second, and availability above 99.9%.
• Implement resilience patterns, including timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiting, and graceful degradation.
• Own the full application lifecycle, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Leverage CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and modern deployment strategies such as blue/green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability and performance improvements.
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools such as Git Hub Copilot to accelerate development, improve test coverage, support refactoring, and streamline troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering decisions to support long-term platform scalability and operational excellence.