Sr Platform Software Engineer

Thistle Services LLC
San Mateo, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 220K

Job location

San Mateo, United States of America

Tech stack

JavaScript
API
Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Applications
JIRA
CSS
Mobile Application Development
Profiling
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
Linux
Web Development
Distributed Data Store
Fault Tolerance
Github
JSON
Python
PostgreSQL
Performance Tuning
Prometheus
Software Engineering
System Software
WebSocket
Openapi
Feature Engineering
React
Grafana
Backend
GIT
FastAPI
Pytest
Information Technology
Kafka
Machine Learning Operations
Front End Software Development
NestJS
REST
Terraform
Software Version Control
Microservices

Job description

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer at our client, you will be integral to developing scalable backend services that power 3D positioning and IoT solutions. This role involves leading design and development within AWS, championing best practices, and working within a fast-paced Agile team. You will drive innovation in Python-based backend systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Join us to shape the future of real-time, location-based technology in a highly collaborative, growth-focused environment., Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services within AWS environments.

-Develop scalable and robust Python-based solutions to support customer features for 3D indoor positioning and IoT device integrations.

-Collaborate with frontend and edge software teams to work within REST and WebSocket microservices, leveraging architecture design models and OpenAPI specs.

  • Use metrics to analyze and improve overall performance across microservices.

-Proactively identify and drive improvements to development processes, optimize system costs, and enhance system quality.

-Take full ownership of projects, managing all phases from concept through deployment.

-Have the ability to see the big picture when implementing the small details.

Requirements

Extensive experience with AWS services, including ECS/EKS, Kinesis/Kafka, and RDS/POSTGRES.

-Prior experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed microservices in Python.

-Hands-on experience with CI/CD processes, using GitHub and testing frameworks such as PyUnit and Pytest.

-Experience with version control systems (such as Git).

-Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments for backend development.

-Proficiency in system design, including requirements gathering, data scaling, API definition, and evaluating trade-offs of different components.

-Strong communication skills in English, with an ability to clearly interact with team members both in writing and conversation.

-Interpersonal skills and respect for collaborative work discipline within a fast-paced startup environment.

-Flexibility to work within an Agile team based in the US Pacific Time Zone.

SHOULD HAVE ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

-Experience with OpenAPI, Grafana, Prometheus, and microservice architecture frameworks.

-Experience debugging complex software applications, including performance tuning and profiling.

-Experience with distributed data persistence and processing systems.

-Proven experience with Terraform for cloud deployment and infrastructure management.

-Experience with project management tools (such as JIRA).

-Technical leadership and mentoring experience within a software engineering team.

NICE TO HAVE ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS

-Exposure to building AI related projects like Agentic, MCP servers, or model development.

-Experience with FastAPI for backend development.

-Exposure to IoT device management workflows.

-Experience with machine learning workflows, including data labeling, feature engineering, model training, tuning, deployment, and monitoring.

-Web development or mobile application development experience, particularly with NestJS, React, CSS, JavaScript, REST, or JSON.

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