Crosslake Technologies is a company focused on supporting changemakers in the technology space. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services that are scalable and reliable, contributing to system design and ensuring high-quality development using AI tools.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build shared backend services and APIs used across multiple systems
- Define service boundaries, contracts, and data models
- Own the full SDLC: design, development, testing, deployment, and iteration
- Contribute to domain modeling and system design decisions
- Ensure services are scalable, reliable, and reusable
- Improve system cohesion and reduce duplication across tools and products
- Use AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high code quality
- Balance speed with long-term maintainability and extensibility
Requirements:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong backend expertise with the ability to operate across the full stack when needed
- Experience designing service-oriented or distributed systems
- Familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD) principles
- Exceptional systems thinking and ability to model complex domains
- Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Solid understanding of the full SDLC
- Deep experience with (i.e., daily usage of) AI coding tools
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools beyond basic code generation
- Ability to leverage AI across the workflow (e.g., prototyping, debugging, test generation, QA, code review, security analysis)
- Ability to balance AI-assisted development with sound system design and long-term maintainability
- Familiarity with modern AI-enabled development environments and practices
- Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
- API design (REST, GraphQL, event-driven systems)
- Messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS), Event sourcing, CQRS patterns
- Data modeling (SQL and NoSQL)
- Observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)
- Experience with one or more of the following languages: Python, TypeScript, Golang, Rust
- Basic understanding of data engineering principles