Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer (Cloud) role stands out because it is explicitly centered on building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS workloads on AWS, a core architectural pattern for modern subscription software. The remit spans large-scale application stack design, integration work across SaaS and IaaS technologies, and practical decision-making around AWS services, which signals a product environment where cloud choices directly shape reliability and customer experience.
For a SaaS-focused engineering career, the long-term value is in deepening platform fluency that transfers across many B2B products: multi-tenancy tradeoffs, API-driven user administration, and operating microservices with containerization and CI/CD. The emphasis on proof of concepts and evaluating design options also builds the habit of balancing speed, cost, and maintainability, a recurring theme in SaaS engineering as systems grow and usage patterns evolve.
This position is best suited to an experienced engineer who prefers owning technical outcomes end to end, from architecture through troubleshooting in production. It will fit someone who enjoys cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering peers, is comfortable working within agile delivery, and wants to specialize further in AWS networking, security, and service selection within a SaaS context.
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.
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.
