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# Software Engineer/Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment Partners LLC.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Code Coverage, Code Review, DevOps, Distributed Computing Environment, Github, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, Ansible, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Web Services, Google Cloud, ReactJS, Technical Debt, Fastapi, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0099ebc6-f529-4a32-bf76-a4629b6561f3

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
 * 5+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture and observability, in a large, distributed environment working across multiple teams
 * 3+ years as a full stack engineer building and operating services in production, including modern web frontends with React or a similar framework
 * 3+ years coding in higher-level languages such as Python or Java in a multi-team codebase
 * Strong knowledge of containers and Kubernetes, APIs, and web services, including building services with FastAPI or similar frameworks
 * Cloud experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure via UI, API, and CLI or automation
 * Experience implementing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, and strong CI/CD principles
 * Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, influence, and collaborate across teams

Desired Skills & Experience

 * AWS Solutions Architect certification
 * Experience leading architecture design and solutioning of greenfield and brownfield projects
 * Knowledge of cloud native, event-driven microservices-based architectures
 * Experience deploying organization-wide secrets as a service and integrating with pipelines and runtime applications
 * Familiarity with common DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, or GitHub

## Description

* Design, build, and evolve automated, self-service capabilities that are efficient and dependable, and can be leveraged company-wide across engineering teams
 * Work independently on ambiguous problems, drive designs to decisions, and mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical talks
 * Continuously identify and reduce technical debt that increases risk or developer friction
 * Coordinate with Product Engineering to design solutions that automate cloud processes across the SDLC
 * Suggest secure defaults and advise on clean coding practices, pipeline test coverage, and observability/alerting
 * Participate in standups, desk checks, tech huddles, and story grooming meetings to provide guidance where it moves the work forward
 * Record decisions, context, and outcomes related to design choices, and prepare Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
 * Bring an AI-first mindset and contribute to AI ways of working


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