# Senior Software Engineer, App Platform

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $188k – $195k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Flask, Node.js, Express.Js, Postgres, MySQL, React, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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