Senior Software Engineer, App Platform
Senior Software Engineer building secure, scalable backend platform infrastructure, distributed systems, plugin frameworks, authentication, observability, and desktop app deployment pipelines at Applied Intuition. Requires Master's degree and 1+ years experience with Python, Go, TS/JS, databases, containers, K8s, and cloud services.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable backend platform infrastructure, abstractions, and tooling that supports application deployment, authentication, and API services.
- Build and optimize distributed systems that enable rapid application development and deployment across the organization.
- Architect and implement plugin systems and extensibility frameworks to build upon the platform.
- Create and maintain cross-platform desktop application infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Design and implement robust authentication and authorization systems and automated testing strategies, and evaluate, integrate, and maintain authentication solutions.
- Engage with external customers to gather feedback on platform capabilities and identify improvement opportunities.
- Document platform features, APIs, and best practices for internal and external users.
- Implement comprehensive observability solutions including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
- Monitor platform performance and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and failures.
- Participate in on-call rotations, conduct post-incident reviews, and implement preventive measures to improve system resilience, maintain platform availability, and respond to incidents.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.
- At least 1 year of experience in a software engineer role with a technology company.
- At least 12 months of experience using Python, Golang, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL, Flask, Node.js/Express.js, PostgreSQL/MySQL, React.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP cloud services, GitHub, OAuth 2.0, and Load Balancing.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building platform infrastructure, plugin systems, authentication/authorization, observability, and distributed systems.
- Customer engagement and feedback integration experience.
- On-call and incident response experience.
Skills
Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Flask, Node.js, Express.Js, Postgres, MySQL, React, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP
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