Software Engineer

Job Summary

This role requires system design and architecture skills impacting and influencing multiple services and platforms.

This individual contributor has the scope of multiple initiatives spanning across multiple teams.

This role requires 7 or more years of directly related experience.

This is the next level after Senior Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and deliver product or platform goals across multiple years and teams.
• Mentor and guide experienced engineers within the company, fostering technical growth and serving as a role model for engineers across multiple teams
• Define what and how for projects while holding a high standard for technical outcomes and delivery
• Identify and prioritize the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems
• Influence the roadmaps of other teams to hit business goals
• Define and deliver the vision for large business-impacting projects
• Influence stakeholders and get buy-ins across multiple teams and disciplines
• Design, architect, implement, test, monitor multiple microservices in production
• Ensure the team follows best practices and adheres to design principles
• Be responsible for monitoring and health of existing systems while building new
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and enhance existing systems
• Provide technical guidance and leadership on high-impact projects
• Contribute to architectural decisions and overall strategy for projects
• Build, optimize and scale software solutions on cloud computing platforms
• Stay current with new tools and emerging technologies

Education & Experience Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, IT or related field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years progressive experience

Skills & Competencies

• Strong collaboration and communication skills to effectively work with highly inclusive and diverse teams
• Strong foundation in software design principles
• Experience building and working with microservices
• Expertise in Python or high-level, interpreted, object-oriented programming language
• Experience building scalable systems using public cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience working with Kubernetes, container orchestration, cache systems (e.g. Redis), message queuing systems (e.g. RMQ, SQS), workflow orchestrators (e.g. Nextflow), storage (NAS, Postgres, S3, RDS)
• Experience building agentic AI workflows and multi-agent systems to automate complex solutions
• Experience in building and enhancing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies and practices
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality maintainable code
• Proven track record of successfully managing complex technical projects spanning multiple teams
• Provides quality feedback on designs written by other engineers
• Create coherent designs with multiple systems that interact across system boundaries
• Roll out and deprecate major features or systems with minimal live-site impact
• Set clear system metrics and achieve them consistently throughout the lifetime of the system
• Designing systems and choosing the right technologies that fit within a larger architecture
• Owns the overall health and engineering quality of multiple systems
• Drive the strategy and implementation for system operations including testing, observability, and monitoring
• Deep expertise in the platforms and software used for the team's work
• Raise the bar across teams through system design, architecture, code-reviews, monitoring, etc

Benefits Overview

Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.