Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer position stands out because it is explicitly centred on building and scaling a multi-tenant SaaS application on AWS. Multi-tenancy introduces product and platform considerations that are specific to SaaS—shared infrastructure, tenant isolation, and operational consistency—which makes the work materially different from single-tenant or bespoke enterprise deployments. The remit also spans design, development, integration research, and proof-of-concepts, signalling a role that sits close to core platform decisions.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers exposure to the mechanics that tend to define successful cloud software at scale: service-oriented architecture, CI/CD, containerised delivery, and observability practices (e.g., ELK). Working across AWS networking and security, data stores (RDS/DynamoDB), and API layers builds a portable skill set that translates across many SaaS companies running modern cloud stacks. The emphasis on integrations and user administration APIs also aligns with the ecosystem reality of SaaS products that must connect cleanly to other systems.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About You
You are a passionate Senior Software Engineer who wants to develop and scale our multi-tenant SaaS applications on the AWS platform. You have a strong software engineering background and advanced knowledge of the AWS platform, tools and services. From day one, you must be able to hit the ground running and bring all your experience to the team to contribute in the building of a great product. Most importantly, you have a positive “can do” attitude and a passion for delivering technical solutions in a fast-paced startup environment. This position will report to the Engineering Manager.
Your Impact
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for design and development of a large-scale application stack running on AWS.
- Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to design and integrate software, conduct code reviews, and troubleshoot product issues.
- Perform proof of concepts to identify best design options including usage of AWS services.
- Research integration options for various SaaS/IaaS technologies, including APIs for user administration and incorporate this research in our application integration.
What will you need?
Required Skills:
- Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience in similar roles.
- In-depth knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Java, REST Web Services, SQL/NoSQL databases, ELK stack, microservices architecture, container/Docker technology, CI/CD principles.
- Hands-on experience developing and delivering scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications on AWS platform.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS platform, tools and services, specifically AWS networking and security, Route53, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB.
- Outstanding collaboration and communication skills.
- Ability to effectively collaborate with distributed teams.
- Understand and practice agile development methodology.
- Prior experience with security product development.
Nice to Have:
- AWS Certified Developer certification is highly desired.
- Prior experience with Big Data technologies.
