Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role stands out for its direct focus on building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS on AWS, a core architectural pattern across modern subscription software. Work at the application stack level, combined with explicit attention to integration surfaces like user administration APIs, places the role in the practical realities of SaaS delivery rather than isolated feature development.
From a SaaS career perspective, the scope maps to durable competencies: designing for tenancy, reliability, and operability; making service choices through proof of concepts; and evolving distributed systems with CI/CD discipline. Experience spanning microservices, containers, and AWS networking and security translates well across SaaS companies where platform maturity and cloud cost, performance, and risk tradeoffs are ongoing concerns.
The position is best suited to an engineer who prefers owning design decisions and navigating ambiguity with a strong delivery mindset. It will fit someone comfortable collaborating across product and engineering, contributing through code reviews and troubleshooting, and working effectively with distributed teams. Senior practitioners looking to deepen cloud platform judgment while staying close to application development should find the balance aligned with long-term SaaS engineering paths.
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.