Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Summary
Senior backend engineer who independently designs, builds, and operates Java processing and streaming services on AWS (ECS, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, CloudFront), owning deliverables end to end including performance tuning, production troubleshooting, observability, and deployment automation. Remote role based in Brazil, hiring for Coforge.
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Key Skills: Java, AWS, DevOps, RESTful APIs
Location: Brazil
Mode: Remote
We at Coforge are hiring Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with the following skill set.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently design, implement, and maintain complex modules of our processing and streaming services; apply algorithms and profiling to optimize performance and memory use.
- Own assigned deliverables end to end: clarify requirements, make implementation decisions, and follow through on testing, deployment, and support.
- Build and operate AWS services across regions using ECS, S3, Amazon Dynamo DB, SQS, AWS Elastic Cache, Lambda, and CloudFront.
- Investigate performance, concurrency, and reliability issues in production, perform root-cause analysis, and implement lasting fixes.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions with architects and client-rendering teams, assess trade-offs, and implement designs aligned with agreed technical direction.
- Improve test coverage, observability, deployment automation, and code quality; contribute code reviews and use IQ BOT thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Hands-on professional software development experience building, shipping, and operating production backend services.
- Strong production experience with Java Standard Edition, including object-oriented design, concurrency, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, particularly ECS and EC2, and strong DevOps fundamentals including CD, IaC, and multi-environment deployment.
- Strong algorithms, data structure, and mathematics skills, with the ability to reason about complexity, memory use, and performance trade-offs.
- Experience building and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems, including RESTful APIs, data formats such as JSON or Protocol Buffers, and observability practices such as logging, metrics, and tracing.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with observability tooling such as Dynatrace, GRAFANA, or Digital AnalyticsSplunk.
- Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP/2 and WebSockets and their impact on streaming performance.
- Experience with IaC such as Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines such as CI/CT - Jenkins.
- Experience with content Delivery Network, global data distribution, containerization, or orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
Posted On: 3-11-2026
At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.
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