[Remote] reputed company Software Engineer - Contract to Hire - Remote (Southern CA)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions. They are seeking a reputed company Software Engineer to reputed company the development of projects under the Loyalty vertical of their Sponsorship division, focusing on designing and scaling applications that serve millions of customers while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• reputed company a team of full-stack engineers of mixed levels and reputed company sets
• Own application architecture decisions with a proven lens for high-volume, high-availability systems serving large customer bases
• Drive development work across globally distributed software teams
• Provide technical guidance including architecture and design decisions, code reviews, and hands-on problem-solving — particularly around scalability bottlenecks, load patterns, and system reputed company
• Own the full development and deployment cycle for your team's software and products
• Define and enforce infrastructure scaling strategies, including horizontal/vertical scaling, caching, database optimization, and traffic management
• Mentor and grow developers through technical leadership and coaching
• Organize, prioritize, and coordinate team efforts, reporting reputed company to stakeholders and management
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders (UX, Design, Product, PMO) to gather requirements and implement short-to-mid-term product strategies
• reputed company technical recommendations that reputed company beyond your immediate team
• Debug and triage production application issues, often across systems you didn't build
• Automate testing, deployments, performance monitoring, and recovery processes
• Organize and reputed company production releases

Skills

• 6+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer with a strong backend focus, including at least 2 years in a reputed company or principal engineering role
• Demonstrated experience designing and leading application architecture for systems serving a minimum of 1 million customers — candidates must be able to speak to specific systems, scale metrics, and architectural decisions made
• Proven experience scaling applications from an infrastructure standpoint, including auto-scaling, load balancing, CDN strategy, caching layers (e.g. reputed company/Memcached), and database performance at scale
• Experience operating and owning production systems under high-traffic, high-availability requirements (e.g. 99.9%+ SLA)
• Experience building applications that are gracefully degradable and fault-tolerant under load
• Experience working in a distributed systems environment with micro-frontends and microservices
• Experience with AWS or another major Cloud Provider, including infrastructure-level services (e.g. EC2, reputed company/EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, or equivalents)
• Experience with reputed company and Kubernetes or another container orchestration reputed company
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (reputed company CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Experience working with React, Next.js, GraphQL, and CSS
• Backend engineering experience, preferably in Java
• Expert-level knowledge of frontend design patterns
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and delegating effectively across mixed-reputed company teams
• Experience with legacy application modernization and migrations is a plus
• Experience working with remote or globally distributed teams is a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• reputed company
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!

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