Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits inside an IT Operations product suite that supports endpoint and server administration at large scale. The listing signals a mature cloud service footprint, with AWS and Postgres underpinning a platform used globally. That combination of product engineering and reliability expectations is characteristic of SaaS companies operating beyond early-stage buildout and into sustained platform evolution.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to problems that recur across subscription software: scaling backend services, managing datastore bottlenecks, and designing asynchronous, client server systems that can handle high volumes reliably. Experience shipping improvements in a widely used cloud product also builds strong instincts around maintainability, testing discipline, and API design, all of which translate well across B2B SaaS categories.
The role is best suited to senior engineers who prefer hands-on delivery while also shaping design patterns and technical direction. It will fit professionals who enjoy deep systems work, pragmatic performance tuning, and collaborating in a codebase that spans Java and Kotlin with supporting components like caching and REST services. Remote in India makes it relevant for engineers looking to stay product-focused without relocating.
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
As a Senior Software Engineer on the NinjaOne team, contributing to our IT Operations product suite, designing and implementing scalable new solutions and product improvements. Providing clean and optimised coding solutions, you’ll work to develop high quality software applications that exceed our customers’ expectations – seriously our customers love our products.
We are engineers, technology leaders and experts. We create and deliver mission critical services to enable NinjaOne’s customers to administer, protect and maintain millions of endpoints and servers. You will have the opportunity to design and develop high-availability mission critical software systems that support our worldwide operations.
We hire the best software engineers with experience in our stack: NinjaOne is built on Java, Kotlin, C++, and Postgres, supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client-server architecture will help you standout.
Location - Remote in India
What you'll be doing
- Java and Kotlin Software Development – use your expertise to contribute to the development of large-scale software applications. Make quality an invariant part of your work and help your fellow engineers continue to meet our quality-first standards.
- Committing Code and Shipping Products – you will be one of our most trusted engineers committing code. Responsible for implementing design patterns and working on enterprise level software challenges, in a startup environment. Impact product more hands on than at other companies, building software of scale that runs on millions and millions of endpoints.
About you
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
10+ years' experience in Java software development for product applications or equivalent. Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a standout candidate.
4+ years' experience working with highly scalable software systems.
Experience working on systems at scale and finding solutions to scale systems.
Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
- Expertise in scaling data structures and object-oriented design.
Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Jersey or Spring.
Relational Database design and development experience.
Experience creating both client and server-side development, for responsive messaging.
Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand-out.
Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.
About Us
NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for more than 35,000 customers in 140+ countries.
The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organisations give employees a great technology experience at work.
NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years.
What You’ll Love
- Competitive compensation
Pension Scheme
Employee's Provident Fund
Private healthcare
Paid maternity and paternity leave
12 days of paid sick leave
18 days of Annual Leave
India Public Holidays based on your location
Other leave benefits, such as Wedding leave
This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment.
