Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer , Search and Recommendations

Work Location: Remote / Offshore

Responsibilities

• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code in Java and Python, adhering to team standards and considering future extensibility
• Take ownership of assigned technical problems and identify opportunities for refactoring and improving code quality
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and senior engineers
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Contribute to design documentation and solution discussions
• Increase automated test coverage and improve monitoring/alerting
• Participate independently in on-call issue diagnosis and resolve operational problems
• Work with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Workflow, Composer, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Cloud SQL)
• Work with technologies including Java, Python, Spring Boot, Spark, Kafka, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, GraphQL, and gRPC

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
• 5+ years of professional software development experience (or Masters + 3+ years)
• Strong proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (Java preferred)
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Experience developing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency services in distributed systems
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot for building microservices

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud technologies (GCP preferred)
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with databases (Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
• Experience with stream-processing technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
• Experience with production systems, monitoring, alerting, and on-call rotation
• Ability to learn quickly and work effectively in ambiguous environments