Senior Software Engineer II

Signifyd is a company that helps merchants confidently grow their businesses by building trusted relationships with their customers. They are seeking a Senior Back-End Engineer to design and build world-class services, specifically managing the public-facing API platform and ingestion services for retailers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver large-scale and real-time systems with high quality, scalability, and operability in mind
• Collaborate with product management, data engineering, and other engineering teams to bring end-to-end solutions to our customers
• Review and provide feedback on technical designs and code changes to engineering peers
• Proactively identify areas of technical debt and propose solutions to address them
• Take operational ownership of the system by using monitoring and observability tools to identify and respond to issues
• Mentor and coach team members to raise the technical bar on the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Significant experience in software development with modern programming languages, experience programming in a functional style
• Track record of leading the design and delivery of large, ambiguous projects end to end, and influencing technical direction beyond your own team
• Strong software design and architecture skills, including designing for scalability, performance, and reliability of high-traffic systems
• Experience building distributed systems or public-facing/platform APIs
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Ability to effectively communicate with engineers and non-engineers alike
• You use modern AI development tools fluently to ship faster without sacrificing quality. This means practical experience with AI coding assistants, understanding how to provide effective context, and critically evaluating generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and long-term code quality