The Senior Software Engineer will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge technology solutions. This permanent position offers the chance to work on impactful projects while enhancing systems and applications.

Client Details

Our client is helping students achieve better outcomes through world-class mentoring and support. They're a fast-growing, startup-minded team that values ownership, speed, pragmatism, and strong engineering fundamentals.

This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact in a lean, high-performing team where engineers are trusted to solve problems end-to-end and wear multiple hats

Description

- Own the end-to-end delivery of full-stack features, from design and architecture through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
- Build contemporary customer-facing applications using TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, balancing scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
- Develop secure, well-designed APIs and backend services that power core platform functionality and support future growth.
- Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (SST/Pulumi), with hands-on responsibility across AWS services including IAM, VPCs, ECS/Fargate, S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
- Improve engineering productivity by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, developer tooling, and operational excellence.
- Work confidently across both greenfield projects and existing production systems,



making thoughtful decisions that improve code quality without over-engineering.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, participate in on-call responsibilities, and help build reliable, observable systems.
- Partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
- For senior engineers, provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and raising engineering standards across the team.

Profile

A successful Senior Software Engineer should have:

- TypeScript
- React
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure as Code (SST or Pulumi preferred)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
- ORM frameworks (Prisma preferred)
- Testing frameworks such as Vitest or Jest

Python experience for automation and CI/CD scripting Experience building and maintaining production systems Strong understanding of software engineering best practices Full-stack development capability Nice to Have
- Next.js experience
- Supabase ecosystem familiarity
- SST experience
- Go or Deno experience
- Experience provisioning AWS environments from scratch
- Monorepo experience (especially Turborepo)
- Startup or high-growth company experience

Job Offer

- Modern engineering stack
- Opportunity to shape product and technical direction

If you are ready to move forward in your career as a Senior Software Engineer, we encourage you to apply!

To apply online please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Jeya Umashankar.

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