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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Engineer V - Software - **Company:** PODS Enterprises LLC. - **Location:** Clearwater, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Data Warehousing, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Next.js, Salesforce.Com, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Datadog, ReactJS, Snowflake, Spring-boot, Backend, Kotlin, Event Driven Architecture, Webpack, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Build Tools, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Docker, Legacy Systems, Microservices - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0fce525a0222529b ## About the Role * Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience). * Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading multi-quarter technical initiatives that spanned multiple teams. * Distributed Systems: A track record of designing, operating, and evolving distributed systems in production at meaningful scale. * Cloud Architecture: Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (Azure preferred): microservices, eventing, API design, and the failure modes of each. * Design Communication: Exceptional written design skills - you can align a dozen engineers through a document., * Experience as the founding or lead architect of a platform other teams build on. * Experience with data-warehouse-native experimentation (Snowflake) and observability at scale (Datadog). * Fluency with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor). ## Description As a Software Engineer V, you set technical direction. You own architecture that spans teams - designing the systems others build within - and you are accountable for technical outcomes delivered through others as well as by your own hands. You define the problems as much as you solve them: turning ambiguous business goals into technical strategy, sequencing multi-quarter initiatives, and making the build-vs-buy and migration calls that shape the platform for years., * Technical Direction: Own the target architecture for a platform or domain that spans multiple teams. Author and drive the technical proposals and design reviews that align engineers around it. * Force Multiplication: Mentor senior engineers, not just early-career ones. Raise the bar org-wide through reusable patterns, standards, and incisive design review. * Hands-On Delivery: Prototype novel or high-risk components and ship critical-path code. Your credibility comes from working software, not slides. * Operational Excellence: Define SLOs and the reliability strategy for your domain. Lead retrospectives on major incidents and turn them into architectural improvements. * Test and Learn at Scale: Shape the experimentation strategy for your domain and build systems that make running a test a config change, not a project. * Momentum: We work in short cycles, code released in days, experiments read out weekly, priorities adjusting as results come in. You design the architecture that makes this speed safe - systems where shipping fast and shipping well are the same motion. * Strategic Partnership: Work with Product, leadership, and across organizations to align technical strategy with the business roadmap; make and defend build/buy/migrate decisions., * Architecture Ownership: Design and evolve systems spanning team boundaries; define the integration contracts and domain boundaries other teams build against. * Migration Leadership: Plan and lead incremental, zero-downtime migrations off legacy systems while the business keeps running. * Technical Risk Management: Identify the riskiest assumptions in a multi-quarter initiative early, and design spikes and milestones that retire them fast. * Engineering Standards: Own key parts of the software design process, review culture, and production-readiness bar across your domain. * Hiring Bar: Help design interview loops and calibrate the technical bar for senior hires. Our Tech Stack * Front-end: React, Vite, Next.js, TypeScript. * Back-end: Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL. * Cloud & Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure (Kubernetes, Functions, Front Door), Docker, Helm. * Data & Analytics: Snowflake, Salesforce CDP. * Experimentation & Observability: Eppo, Datadog. * DevOps: Azure DevOps (ADO), Pipelines. * AI Tooling: Cursor, Claude. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Kotlin Multiplatform - True power of native code reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/4-kotlin-multiplatform-true-power-of-native-code-reuse) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read) - [Dev Digest 139 - Soft and hard queries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/487-dev-digest-139-soft-and-hard-queries)