Software Engineer III

CData Software is a leading company in data connectivity, delivering solutions for enterprise AI and analytics. The Software Engineer III role involves designing and evolving cloud and AI platforms, contributing to complex technical domains, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve high-impact problems.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and lead components of cloud-native, scalable, multi-tenant architecture
• Design and develop robust, scalable backend services and APIs using Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or C#
• Partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to shape technical solutions to business problems
• Solve complex problems in distributed systems, data infrastructure, observability, performance, and reliability
• Contribute to the design and implementation of AI/LLM-powered features and services
• Guide and support other engineers, lead technical design reviews, contribute to team best practices, and champion engineering excellence
• Take features from concept to production with thoughtful design, testing, instrumentation, and supportability
• Evaluate new technologies and tools, prototype solutions, and share insights with the team
• Drive initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and long-term support
• Apply AI-first development practices to improve engineering velocity and quality
• Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, copilots, agentic workflows) to accelerate design, implementation, and debugging
• Leverage AI to rapidly prototype solutions, validate ideas, and reduce time from concept to production
• Apply AI in testing workflows (test generation, edge case discovery, regression analysis) to improve coverage and reliability
• Use AI-driven approaches for code review, refactoring, and documentation to maintain high engineering quality
• Integrate AI into observability and incident response workflows (e.g., anomaly detection, root cause analysis)
• Exercise sound engineering judgement when using AI-generated outputs, ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong expertise in object-oriented programming and system design (Java, Kotlin, C#, TypeScript, or similar)
• Proven experience building scalable REST APIs and cloud-native microservices
• Strong knowledge of relational (SQL Server, Postgres) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure or AWS)
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across time zones
• Bonus: Experience with front-end frameworks like React/TypeScript
• Bonus: Understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, or ML integration