Senior Software Engineer

Imagine Learning is looking for a strong individual contributor Senior Software Engineer who is deeply hands-on with coding, testing, system design, deployment, and operations. This role is ideal for engineers who have built and scaled production-grade, cloud-native SaaS or B2C products and take full ownership of services end-to-end. This is not a coordination or support role. You will actively design, code, test, deploy, and operate real-world systems at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate cloud-native, distributed systems end-to-end.
• Build scalable backend services and APIs using Go / Java / Kotlin /. NET.
• Develop full-stack features using TypeScript (backend or frontend as applicable).
• Own system design (HLD and LLD) for high-scale, high-availability services.
• Design and manage databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), data models, and performance optimization.
• Build and deploy services on AWS using modern cloud-native practices.
• Work with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement testing strategies (unit, integration, and functional) and ensure production readiness.
• Participate in incident handling, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate closely with product, platform, and engineering teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and actively participate in design and code reviews.

Requirements:

• A true hands-on senior engineer, not an architect-only profile.
• Someone who has built, shipped, and supported real products.
• Comfortable owning features from idea to production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for clean code, system design, and engineering excellence.
• 6-10 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Must be from product companies only (B2C / SaaS preferred).
• Strictly NO services/consulting companies.
• Experience working on customer-facing, large-scale products.
• EdTech domain experience is NOT mandatory.
• Strong ownership mindset and IC-first attitude.

Core Development:

• Strong hands-on experience with Go OR Java OR Kotlin OR NET.
• Strong experience with TypeScript (backend or frontend).
• Excellent problem-solving and coding skills with production experience.

System Design and Architecture:

• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience in system design for scale, reliability, and performance.

Cloud and DevOps:

• Strong experience with AWS (EC2 EKS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, etc. ).
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Infrastructure-as-Code exposure is a plus.

Databases:

• Strong experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Data modeling, indexing, and performance tuning.

Quality and Operations:

• Hands-on experience in testing, deployment, and production support.
• Experience owning services in production environments.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability.