Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits in a classic SaaS infrastructure domain: mobile device management within a broader unified IT operations platform. Building backend services that support large fleets of endpoints and enterprise customers tends to surface the real constraints of SaaS at scale, including multi-tenant reliability, data persistence tradeoffs, and operational safety when changes roll out continuously.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to durable platform engineering skills. Experience with Kotlin and Java in microservice architectures, plus AWS deployment patterns and asynchronous messaging, translates across many product-led and IT-focused SaaS companies. The emphasis on performance bottlenecks, API design, and datastore behavior is especially relevant for engineers who want to deepen systems thinking rather than stay confined to feature delivery.
This position is best suited to senior engineers who prefer owning backend outcomes end to end, from design through production, and who enjoy working close to operational realities like scaling and incident prevention. It also fits professionals who value clear technical craftsmanship, are comfortable collaborating across services and teams, and want their work to be measured by reliability and customer-impacting quality.
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 the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the fast-growing Mobile Device Management Team at NinjaOne, you will be contributing to our Unified IT Professionals Operations product suite, designing and implementing scalable new solutions and product improvements. Providing clean and optimized coding solutions, you'll work to develop high quality software applications that exceed our customers' expectations — seriously our customers love our products.
We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can't hurt: NinjaOne is built on Java, Kotlin, Golang, C++, and Postgres; supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service across microservices on AWS. Knowing large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design, and client-server architecture will help you.
What You'll be Doing
- Kotlin, Java Software Development — use your expertise to contribute to the development of large-scale software applications across our backend services. 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 utilizing AI to deliver solutions. 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.
- Work on bleeding-edge multi-agent systems with AI powered tools that remove boilerplate and let you focus on true innovation.
- Other duties as needed
About You
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
•10+ years’ experiencein Kotlin or Java software development for product applications or equivalent.
•4+ years’ experience working with highly scalable software systems
•Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
•Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Spring boot.
•Expert knowledge of relational Database design and development experience.
•Experience creating both client and server-side development, for responsive messaging.
•Experience with RabbitMQ; familiarity with Kafka is a plus.
•Hands-on experience developing microservices, deploying on ECS and running them in AWS.
•Exposure to DevOps practices and tooling is valued
•Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis is preferred.
•Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a standout candidate.
About Us
NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for more than 40,000 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, organizations 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.
Location
We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, *IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.
What You'll Love
We are a collaborative, kind, and curious community.
We honor your flexibility needs with full-time work that is hybrid remote.
We have you covered with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.
We help you prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) plan.
We prioritize your work-life balance with our unlimited PTO.
We reward your work with opportunity for growth and advancement.
Additional Information
This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship.
*Due to operational policies, NinjaOne is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. We will consider all qualified candidates who reside outside of the city proper or are willing to self-relocate.
Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to location, market demands, experience, job-related knowledge, and skills. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage and PTO. For roles based in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, or Washington the base salary hiring range for this position is $140,000 - $220,000 per year.
For roles based in New York, the base salary hiring range for this position is $140,000 - $220,000 per year.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, 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.
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