(Contract) Senior Software Engineer Enterprise Platforms

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to develop and enhance high-performance and highly scalable backend services. The role values familiarity with Node.js and React, but the primary emphasis is on Go, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development across AWS & GCP.

Requirements

• Design, implement, and maintain data-intensive Go and node gRPC APIs.
• Build, containerize, and deploy scalable Go microservices on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE).
• Refactor and modernize legacy Node.js services into idiomatic Go services, improving performance and stability.
• Integrate and operate Apache Kafka pipelines for high-throughput event streaming, including producer/consumer logic, schema management, and monitoring.
• Leverage cloud services on both AWS and GCP to build resilient, cost-effective solutions.
• Troubleshoot technical issues.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and champion best practices around testing, CI/CD, and security.
• Participate in architectural design reviews, providing pragmatic feedback on scalability, fault tolerance, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Program Management, QA, and other teams to align delivery with business goals.
• Provide realistic level-of-effort (LOE) estimates during quarterly PI planning, accounting for dependencies and risk factors.
• Prototype emerging technologies to accelerate engineering velocity and reduce operational overhead.