Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role stands out for its clear multi-tenant SaaS focus and its grounding in AWS-native architecture. Work described spans a large-scale application stack, service selection through proof of concepts, and integration with other SaaS and IaaS technologies, which are common pressure points for modern subscription software. The emphasis on APIs for user administration also signals proximity to identity, provisioning, and operational concerns that frequently shape SaaS product reliability.
From a SaaS career perspective, the remit maps to durable platform skills: designing for scale, strengthening service boundaries in microservices environments, and making pragmatic choices around data stores and observability tooling. Experience here translates well across SaaS companies because it combines delivery work with architectural judgment, including CI/CD practices and the operational realities of running production workloads on AWS.
The role is best suited to an engineer who prefers owning systems end to end, from design through troubleshooting, and who is comfortable collaborating closely with product and engineering peers. It should appeal to someone who enjoys evaluating tradeoffs between AWS services and building integration-ready components, particularly in distributed team settings where communication and code review discipline matter.
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.
