Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Applied's Platform Team
Experience: 5+ Years
Location: [WTC Annexe, Rajajinagar, Bengaluru]
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team, responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure, tools, and services that power our products. This role is ideal for engineers with strong backend and system design experience, who also bring a product-minded approach to platform development.

As part of the Platform Team, you will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to build scalable microservices, improve developer experience, and ensure our platform is robust, secure, and cloud-ready.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain platform-level microservices using Golang
• Build internal tools and UI components using ReactJS to support engineering workflows and operations
• Create and manage containerized environments using Docker and deploy them on Kubernetes
• Collaborate on designing scalable, secure service architectures and CI/CD pipelines
• Own the development and maintenance of key platform services (e.g., identity, observability, configuration management, service discovery)
• Optimize database interactions using PostgreSQL
• Enable other engineering teams by providing libraries, patterns, and documentation for consistent service development
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions
• Monitor system health and performance; drive platform observability and reliability improvements

Required Skills:

• 5-7 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend experience with Golang and microservices architecture
• Solid front-end experience with ReactJS
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or other SQL-based databases
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and practices
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, and service-level concerns
• Experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, NATS) is a plus

Preferred/Bonus Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Exposure to infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Understanding of authentication, authorization (OAuth2, OIDC), and secrets management
• Passion for improving developer experience and platform scalability