Sr Software Engineer (Fullstack Developer)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Emergency Preparedness & Response team, building backend-heavy full-stack systems that keep critical operations running during emergency events.

What you'll do

• Design, build, review, and debug features and services across the stack.
• Work back from customer pain points and business goals to solve the right problem.
• Build highly available, resilient systems that are easy to operate during peak-demand emergency events.
• Break down complex problems into well-scoped deliverables and drive them to completion.
• Design for non-functional requirements including availability, scalability, latency, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• Instrument work, use metrics to guide decisions, and improve system performance.
• Partner with product, operations, and business stakeholders to align outcomes.

What you'll need

• 4–5 years of demonstrable software development experience building production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, or JavaScript with backend-heavy full-stack capability.
• Proven experience building highly available, maintainable, and scalable production systems.
• Solid understanding of non-functional requirements (availability, scalability, reliability, latency, cost, maintainability).
• Metric-driven mindset with instrumentation and data-driven decision-making.
• Strong problem-solving ability and rigorous reasoning about trade-offs.
• Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into smaller achievable deliverables.

Nice to have

• Experience building systems for high-stakes, time-sensitive, or surge-driven conditions.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with observability, on-call, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience mentoring peers or junior engineers.
• Exposure to workforce management, procurement, or supply/demand matching domains.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.