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Sr Software Engineer
$144K–$213K
San Jose, California, United States of America · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years relevant experience, with a Bachelor’s degree; or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Delivers end-to-end software solutions across the SDLC, makes technical decisions, advises management on project issues, and guides junior engineers.
What you'll do
- Designs, implements, tests, delivers, and operates software solutions.
- Advises immediate management on project-level issues and guides junior engineers.
- Makes technical decisions using internal conventions and industry best practices.
What they ask for
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, design patterns, and multithreaded programming.
- Experience designing and building web services or microservices using HTTP and REST APIs in a commercial setting.
- Hands-on Java programming and RESTful services experience; knowledge of SQL and NoSQL solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, analytical, and scalable software design skills.
Nice to have
- Knowledge or particular interest in large-scale distributed stream processing and real-time computation systems.
- Hands-on use of AI/GenAI tools to improve software engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
Pay
$143,500.00 - $212,850.00 USD annually (base pay)
Tools
Java, Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework, HTTP, REST API's, SQL, NoSQL
AI focus
Uses AI/GenAI tools to improve software engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
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