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Software Development Engineer II

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About the role

Software Development Engineer II (SDE II)


What You Will Do
  • Design, build, and operate production-grade services, APIs, and integrations end-to-end.
  • Own delivery of well-defined components, from design through testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Build backend systems in Python (FastAPI or similar) and contribute to React-based interfaces and streaming APIs.
  • Deploy and manage workloads on AWS services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure automation, and observability tooling.
  • Define and execute testing strategies including unit, integration, and regression testing.
  • Contribute to low-level designs, code reviews, and technical documentation.
  • Debug and resolve production issues, improving reliability and performance.
  • Mentor junior engineers through reviews and pair programming.
  • Use AI tools to improve engineering productivity, testing, and documentation.

What you’ll bring

What We Are Looking For

Experience building production-grade software systems.
  • Strong engineering capability in at least one modern language (Python strongly preferred).
  • Experience designing and operating backend services, APIs, and databases.
  • Hands-on experience deploying applications on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch).
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Familiarity with React, Node.js, or modern web application patterns is an advantage.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and ownership capability.

Benefits and perks

Skills

Required

ObservabilityFastAPIAWSProblem-solvingAutomated TestingCI/CDCommunicationDebuggingPython

Nice to have

ReactNode.jsCloudWatchLambdaAPI GatewayIAMInfrastructure AutomationMentoringTechnical DocumentationUnit TestingIntegration TestingRegression testingDevSecOpsPair programmingAWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Your contact

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Abhignan K