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Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Brazil · On-site · Mexico Billable

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AWSObservabilityJavaREST APIsWebSocketsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDJenkinsGrafanaDistributed Systems
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend) Key Skills: Java, AWS, DevOps, RESTful APIs Location: Brazil Mode: Remote We at Coforge are hiring Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with the following skill set. Key Responsibilities - Independently design, implement, and maintain complex modules of our processing and streaming services; apply algorithms and profiling to optimize performance and memory use. - Own assigned deliverables end to end: clarify requirements, make implementation decisions, and follow through on testing, deployment, and support. - Build and operate AWS services across regions using ECS, S3, Amazon Dynamo DB, SQS, AWS Elastic Cache, Lambda, and CloudFront. - Investigate performance, concurrency, and reliability issues in production, perform root-cause analysis, and implement lasting fixes. - Participate in architecture and design discussions with architects and client-rendering teams, assess trade-offs, and implement designs aligned with agreed technical direction. - Improve test coverage, observability, deployment automation, and code quality; contribute code reviews and use IQ BOT thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity. Required Skills & Qualifications - Hands-on professional software development experience building, shipping, and operating production backend services. - Strong production experience with Java Standard Edition, including object-oriented design, concurrency, performance optimization, and troubleshooting. - Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, particularly ECS and EC2, and strong DevOps fundamentals including CD, IaC, and multi-environment deployment. - Strong algorithms, data structure, and mathematics skills, with the ability to reason about complexity, memory use, and performance trade-offs. - Experience building and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems, including RESTful APIs, data formats such as JSON or Protocol Buffers, and observability practices such as logging, metrics, and tracing. Preferred Skills - Experience with observability tooling such as Dynatrace, GRAFANA, or Digital AnalyticsSplunk. - Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP/2 and WebSockets and their impact on streaming performance. - Experience with IaC such as Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines such as CI/CT - Jenkins. - Experience with content Delivery Network, global data distribution, containerization, or orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes. Posted On: 3-11-2026 At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.