First American - Senior Software Engineer I - Full Stack

Senior Software Engineer (SSE1) - Full Stack Engineer

Build the next generation of First American's business platforms with a futuristic, cloud-native stack - Python, NestJS, Next.js, React, and TypeScript.

Role Details :

Role : Senior Software Engineer (SSE1)

Function : Full Stack Engineering

Location : Remote / Bengaluru, India

Experience : 5+ Years

Employment : Full-Time

About First American India :

First American (India) Private Limited (FAI) is a Global Capability Centre (GCC) of the First American Financial Corporation (FAF: NYSE) - a leading provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions since 1889.

FAI delivers Software Development, IT Infrastructure, Data & Analytics, back-office, and knowledge-processing operations to support First American's global operations across the US, UK, Australia & Canada.

We build technology that powers millions of real-estate transactions, with a people-first culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and solving real-world problems at scale.

Role Summary :

As a Senior Software Engineer (SSE1) - Full Stack, you will help shape and deliver high-impact modernization initiatives at FAI. You will probe stated and unstated needs of business stakeholders, translate complex functional requirements into clean system designs, and build cloud-native, AI-assisted full-stack applications that simplify, accelerate, and outperform legacy workflows.

You will own modules end-to-end across Python services, NestJS APIs, and Next.js / React front-ends in TypeScript, while adhering to the team's coding standards and a continuous Build-Integrate-Test (Agile) approach. You will apply solid debugging and performance-tuning concepts, review peer code, and use AI-assisted developer tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.

Strategic Focus - Platform Modernization :

Re-platform business-critical capabilities into modern, in-house micro-services and React / Next.js experiences on AWS - improving total cost of ownership, performance, observability, and product velocity, while raising the engineering bar through AI-assisted development practices.

Objectives of the Role - What You'll Do :

- Partner with business analysts, product managers, and domain SMEs to discover, document, and translate complex business workflows into modern micro-services and UIs.

- Design and deliver scalable, secure, event-driven full-stack features using Python (FastAPI / Django) and NestJS on the back-end, and Next.js + React + TypeScript on the front-end.

- Build and consume well-documented REST and GraphQL APIs (OpenAPI / Swagger) that cleanly decouple front-ends from back-end services and external dependencies.

- Author data-extraction, transformation, and migration utilities to move data from legacy systems into modern PostgreSQL and DynamoDB stores.

- Collaborate on AWS-native deployments using Lambda, ECS / EKS, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB, with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.

- Champion AI-assisted development - leverage Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot for code generation, refactoring, test scaffolding, and developer-productivity tooling.

- Troubleshoot, debug, and performance-tune applications across the stack; participate in on-call and operational excellence rotations for production workloads.

- Mentor associate engineers, share learnings, and help establish reusable patterns and platform building blocks for other teams across FAI.

Technical Skills :

1. Front-End :

- React.js

- Next.js (App Router)

- TypeScript

- HTML5 / CSS3

- Tailwind / Shadcn UI, React Query / Zustand.

2. Back-End :

- Python (FastAPI / Django)

- NestJS (Node.js) TypeScript

- REST / OpenAPI / Swagger

- GraphQL, Microservices & Event-Driven Patterns.

3. Database :

- PostgreSQL

- DynamoDB

- Redis

- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch.

4. Cloud & DevOps :

- AWS (Lambda, ECS / EKS, S3, RDS)

- CI/CD Pipelines

- Git / GitHub / GitLab

- Terraform / CloudFormation, Docker / Kubernetes.

5. AI-Assisted Engineering :

- Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, LLM-driven Test & Migration Tooling.

Required Qualifications :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

- Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on full-stack software engineering experience.

- Strong hands-on experience with Python and TypeScript in production systems.

- Proven experience building React.js / Next.js front-ends and NestJS / Python service back-ends.

- Working knowledge of AWS, micro-service architecture, and at least one of PostgreSQL or DynamoDB.

- Experience with serverless patterns (AWS Lambda, Step Functions) and event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS, Kafka).

- Familiarity with Git-based version control, Agile / Scrum, and JIRA-based delivery practices.

- Detail-oriented mindset focused on delivering high-quality, efficient, and maintainable software.

- Effective communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Nice to Have :

- Exposure to Salesforce (admin, developer, or integration perspective) is an added advantage.

- Hands-on experience designing and productionizing AI use cases (LLM-powered features, RAG, agentic workflows, or ML inference services) will be an added advantage.

- Background in observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).

- Exposure to applying LLMs to internal developer productivity.

What Makes You a Great Fit :

You think in platforms and systems, bring a strong product mindset - obsessing over user outcomes, business value, and the "why" behind every feature - and balance technical depth with empathy for the customer. You navigate ambiguity well, are passionate about transforming real-estate technology, and are energised by building modern, cloud-native, AI-augmented experiences. You bring the rigour, ownership, and collaborative spirit to take peers along on that journey.