Software Engineer II

Job highlights

• Cloud platforms (AWS preferred): EC2,S3,Lambda,EFS,ECS,EKS,API Gateway,SQS,IAM,VPC . Relational databases (MS SQL Server,PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB,DocumentDB) . Docker and Kubernetes . CI / CD tools: Azure DevOps,GitHub Actions,ArgoCD,YAML,PowerShell . Observability tools: Splunk,ELK Stack,DataDog .
• Required

Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer II - Full Stack

Location: India Remote

Role Overview

The Senior Software Engineer II will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Architect, Product Manager and team to understand both stated and unstated needs, own a domain or technical system long-term, and autonomously deliver ongoing business impact through larger, multi-quarter initiatives.

The role is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and enhancing applications for First American. These applications are typically web-based and are developed in accordance with established coding standards and guidelines using a continuous Build-Integrate-Test approach within an Agile environment.

The Senior Software Engineer II will serve as a recognized domain technical authority-using deep business knowledge and strong engineering practices to improve functionality, performance, reliability, and maintainability while shaping technical direction and elevating team outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Autonomously deliver ongoing business impact for the team, product capability, or technical system-leading larger, multi-quarter initiatives across the full SDLC from design through launch and rollout.
• Own a domain or technical system long-term; serve as a recognized domain expert and drive customer impact through technical direction and durable improvements.
• Make independent technical decisions for the team under open-ended requirements; partner with the Architect and Product Manager on roadmaps, trade-offs, and pragmatic solutions.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager, Architect, and Product Manager on long-term goals; identify when work is not moving the needle and redirect focus toward measurable outcomes.
• Lead one to two important projects concurrently; divide work for independent team execution and anticipate risks proactively.
• Define and maintain project plans for larger initiatives; establish milestones, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Define domain-level standards, patterns, and operational practices; steward elimination of tech debt, toil, and security issues across team-owned systems.
• Lead high-quality code reviews that coach others and elevate review culture; simplify team-owned systems and build tools or documentation others adopt.
• Design architecture and infrastructure patterns the team follows; make spike and MVP decisions and rally the team on scale, reliability, simplicity, and cost trade-offs.
• Serve as a primary driver on production issues and post-mortems; define and monitor SLAs/SLOs where applicable and deliver durable operational fixes, including scale improvements.
• Think systematically about evolution of production infrastructure, integrations, and cross-system dependencies across the domain.
• Drive cross-team coordination and stakeholder communication; eliminate systemic toil and simplify systems at the domain level.
• Mentor engineers across teams; contribute to hiring and partner with the Engineering Manager on team culture and psychological safety.

• Improve how the team measures, communicates, and delivers customer impact; challenge inefficiency and drive continuous improvement.

  Competencies

• Probes to understand stated and unstated stakeholder needs; partners as a trusted domain advisor and shapes technical direction with Product and Architecture.
• Monitors team and own deliverables against performance, time, budget, and quality standards; escalates risks early and redirects low-impact work.
• Makes independent technical judgments in open-ended requirements; drives the greatest customer impact through business-aware decisions.
• Identifies when self or team results are not moving the needle; works with the Engineering Manager to improve how impact is measured and communicated.
• Defines solutions and practices that level up the team; stewards code quality, operational excellence, and pragmatic improvement across the domain.
• Takes initiative to grow technical and leadership skills; shares learnings openly and leads by example under ambiguity.
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