高级软件工程师

Software engineer with extensive experience in building, maintaining, and improving scalable platforms, as well as providing technical oversight to development teams. The ideal candidate will be a technical reference within the company, capable of making strategic software architecture decisions, guiding the team, and assisting in solving critical problems. This role requires being a key point of contact for both the team and stakeholders, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products that meet business needs.
Responsibilities

• Lead the tech design, development, and maintenance of software systems, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.

• Define software architecture and make key decisions regarding the product’s technological direction.

• Work closely with Product Owners and other departments to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Guide and mentor development teams, promoting best practices in software engineering (coding, code review, testing, CI/CD, etc.).

• Manage the resolution of critical issues and support decision-making related to bugs, refactoring, and performance optimizations.

• Oversee the team's deliverables and ensure technical quality through code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.

• Lead continuous improvement processes and ensure that the team adopts industry best practices regarding agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).

• Foster a collaborative environment and encourage continuous learning within the team.

• Assist in recruiting technical talent and actively participate in the training and development of team members.

• Stay updated on new technologies and industry trends that can benefit the product or processes.

• Drive and improve the AI-assisted workflows

• Own and improve quality gates

• Solve performance and modeling problems

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 6 years of software development experience and at least 2-3 years in technical leadership roles.

• Plus: Experience migrating or rewriting legacy systems

• Plus: Hospital, healthcare, insurance, banking, or other regulated/high-stakes domain experience

• Technologies:
• Java (advanced) — Java 17+ at minimum; comfortable moving to Java 25 LTS. Spring Boot 3.x/4.x, Spring Security 6/7, Spring Cloud Gateway.

• TypeScript + Vue 3 (Composition API), PrimeVue 4.5+, Vite 6+, Vitest 3+, Pinia. Comfortable building schema-driven dynamic forms and master-detail screens.

• Keycloak / OIDC / JWT — realm modeling, RS256 validation, client/scope design.

• Containers + Kubernetes — Docker, Kustomize overlays, health/readiness probes, structured logging, Micrometer/Prometheus.

• Testing discipline — JUnit 5, Testcontainers (Oracle), Playwright E2E.

• Experience working with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as a driver, not just a passenger — designing prompts, writing custom agents/skills, and reviewing AI output line by line.

• Experience with Confluence/Jira-driven engineering workflows.

• Technical leadership skills: Proven ability to guide and mentor other engineers, make critical architectural decisions, and solve complex problems under pressure.

• Communication skills: Excellent ability to convey complex technical ideas to non-technical audiences and work with stakeholders.

• Soft skills: Proactivity, inspiring leadership, organization, and ability to work in agile environments with fast-paced deliveries. Bias for fixing root causes, not bypassing checks.

Originally posted on Himalayas