Job Title : Senior Software Engineer

Experience : 5+ years

Location : Onsite

Industry : Media & Entertainment

About the Role :

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in with expertise in backend systems, databases, and cloud platforms.

This role blends hands-on backend engineering with higher-level responsibilities in design, architecture, and team leadership.

Youll play a key role in shaping solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software.

This role requires strong technical depth combined with the ability to design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver business-critical solutions.

Responsibilities :

- Lead the design and development of backend services and APIs using modern backend frameworks.

- Design and implement backend systems that are highly scalable and easily expandable, ensuring they can adapt to evolving business needs and future growth.

- Contribute to system architecture discussions and own module/service-level designs.

- Design and build client-facing APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure, ensuring services and APIs comply with security best practices in collaboration with the security team.

- Design and build internal APIs that are consumed by frontend applications and services.

- Write clean, maintainable, and performant code.

- Design and optimize solutions using relational and non-relational databases.

- Adopt and champion AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and share best practices across the team.

- Partner with QA to deliver quality features in a timely manner.

- Ensure sufficient unit test coverage for backend services, working closely with the Tech Lead to validate test quality and completeness.

- Support and mentor junior engineers in writing effective unit tests and fostering a test-first mindset.

- Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and ensure engineering alignment with business goals.

- Partner with engineers to confirm solutions meet product and technical requirements.

- Contribute to Agile development processes by participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and ensuring timely delivery of features.

- Guide junior engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

- Champion best practices in CI/CD, containerization, and observability/monitoring.

- Contribute to technical decision-making and process improvements.

- Participate in the hiring and interview process as needed.

Required Skills & Experience :

- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.

- Strong proficiency in backend service development.

- Strong hands-on experience with relational databases.

- Hands-on experience working with to non-relational databases.

- Experience with distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven messaging architectures.

- Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud platforms and building distributed, scalable systems.

- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and containerization.

- Experience embedding security and compliance best practices into backend and API design.

- Strong understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, and high availability.

- Proficiency in leveraging and evaluating AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.

- Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure system reliability.

- Strong experience in Agile development, including contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure high-quality delivery.

- Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests, with the ability to guide less-experienced engineers in adopting testing best practices.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Media & entertainment industry experience.

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Nomad).

- Exposure to multiple backend frameworks is a plus (including .NET Core and its ecosystem).

- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, and advocate for their adoption to improve engineering productivity.