Sr. Software Development Engineer

iSpot is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to own engineering domains and drive scalable solutions for its high-scale data systems. The role focuses on software architecture, operational excellence, AI-enabled engineering practices, cost optimization, and technical leadership across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Coding & Debugging: Design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases. Provide prescriptive code reviews that suggest more acceptable code patterns and contribute to company-wide style guidelines
• Quality & Release: Maintain a high standard of quality, setting the example for the team. Develop the architecture for our automation systems and expertly debug complex issues within the CI/CD pipeline. Implement secure deployment strategies, especially for large-scale, high-risk projects
• AI-First Mindset: Be “AI-native.” Actively explore and learn about AI technologies that enhance the efficiency of the entire team’s work
• Leading Adoption: Don’t just use AI; “create space” for teammates to improve their AI tooling through pairing, providing demos, and writing documentation
• Creative Problem Solving: Act as a pioneer in critical technologies, bringing creative solutions to complex, large-scale projects and ensuring your contributions can be extended far into the future
• Data-Driven RCA: Propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions. Play a lead role in researching external solutions and leading root cause analysis (RCA) for complex, multi-domain incidents
• Operational Efficiency & Toil Reduction: Proactively improve the current state of operations by identifying and reducing toil. Apply a “Platform Engineering” mindset to automate repetitive manual tasks, ensuring the team remains focused on high-value engineering
• Scalability & Influence: Build internal networks to improve organizational speed and the quality of technology solutions, removing obstacles for the team as they arise. Serve as the “go-to” person for the team, identifying trends and introducing broad solutions to address systemic issues
• Cost-Conscious Engineering: Drive a mature cost-optimization strategy, ensuring that architectural decisions and cloud resource utilization are both performant and cost-efficient. Balance technical excellence with business value, treating cost-consciousness as a core pillar of system reliability
• Strategic Alignment: Routinely work cross-functionally to align partners and stakeholders with the project vision and strategy
• Mentorship: Mentor less experienced team members, ensuring your communication promotes clarity and inspires action. Onboard and coach other engineers in adopting an AI-first mindset, focusing on low-risk strategies
• Conflict Resolution: Handle personal conflicts within the team and navigate ambiguity to reach strategic milestones

Requirements:

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States
• iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time
• Significant experience developing software for shareable features across multiple engineering projects
• Experience leading small-to-mid-sized technical initiatives is required
• Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable
• Follows industry best practices for high-availability API design and the streamlining of complex database operations
• Hands-on experience with Platform Engineering principles, focusing on internal developer experience, infrastructure abstraction, and building self-service capabilities for engineering teams
• Expert knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM)
• Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, RabbitMQ (or similar message broker), Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., Kiro, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, Claude Code)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (from junior devs to senior leadership)
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD concepts (CircleCircleCI)
• A track record of identifying trends in incidents and introducing broad solutions to address them