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# Senior Software Engineer, Platform/Backend

- **Company:** Sentilink Corp.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Computer Programming, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Query Optimization, Software Engineering, Backend, Build Management, Api Design, Software Coding, Api Management, Docker, Service Stack, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_15dfb131173408554db9e9f1a16f1a59

## About the Role

* 6+ years of software development experience building enterprise or consumer facing products
 * Experience with building API based products using Python, Golang, or similar technologies
 * Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, interpersonal skills, and a sense of humor (enjoy the journey)
 * Familiarity with: RDBMS (e.g. postgres) and ability to write efficient queries with optimal structures; Docker and AWS technologies; fintech or financial services; scrum / agile development environment
 * Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at SentiLink, you will build and enhance an API platform that powers our products. You will work with product, engineering, and security teams across the company to deploy the features and underlying systems to make our products scalable, maintainable, and extremely secure. You have outstanding programming skills, you are proficient in our technology stack, and you can pick up new technologies quickly as we evolve., * You are the owner of one large section of our codebase

 * Lead the technical direction provide guidance and set the technical direction for our team, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices
 * Design and build a suite of API-based decisioning products
 * Code, test, debug, document, and maintain products and platform using established coding standards and methodologies
 * Partner with product management to drive agile delivery of both existing and new products based on project requirements.
 * Ensure new software meets quality standards by writing unit, dependency, integration and end-to-end automated tests
 * Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve product issues as they arise
 * Ensure platform and services meet SLA requirements; on call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering