Sr. Software Engineer - Data Platform

Mitek Systems is a global leader in digital and biometric identity authentication solutions. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for building Mitek's next-generation cloud Data Platform, collaborating with various teams to deliver scalable, production-ready cloud solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain production-ready data pipelines, platform services, and integrations
• Build scalable cloud-native data platform solutions that ingest, process, transform, and deliver data at scale
• Build platform solutions using microservices and containerized architectures
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and performance tests
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for platform services, data integrations, and APIs
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams across the full development lifecycle
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, refinement, retrospectives)
• Support deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness of data platform services in production

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field with a formal software engineering background, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience with Python and/or Golang
• Experience developing and deploying solutions on AWS or comparable cloud platforms
• Experience building cloud and/or standalone APIs
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and/or data-intensive architectures
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery practices
• Experience deploying applications using Docker
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies
• Experience writing automated unit and integration tests
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work with evolving requirements
• 1+ year of production experience in Golang
• Experience with Apache Airflow or other orchestration tools
• Database experience, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience with AWS services such as: EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, PubSub, API Gateway, KMS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Experience with image processing or machine learning systems
• Front-end experience with React/Redux
• Experience with additional languages such as Java, Bash, Groovy or C++